passive_smoking {selectMeta}

Dataset on the effect of environmental tobacco smoke

Description

Effect of environmental tobacco smoke on lung-cancer in lifetime non-smokers.

Usage

data(passive_smoking)

Format

A data frame with 37 observations on the following 2 variables.

lnRR

Log-relative risk.

selnRR

Standard error of log-relative risk.

Details

The sample consists of lung cancer patients and controls that were lifelong non-smokers. The effect of interest is measured by the relative risk of lung cancer according to whether the spouse currently smoked or had never smoked.

References

Hackshaw, A. K., Law, M. R., and Wald, N.J. The accumulated evidence on lung cancer and environmental tobacco smoke. BMJ, 315, 980–988.

See Also

This dataset is analyzed in the help file for DearBegg.