kyphosis
Spinal Disease in Children Data
Description
The kyphosis data frame has 81 rows representing data on 81
children who have had corrective spinal surgery. The outcome
Kyphosis is a binary variable, the other three variables (columns)
are numeric.
Arguments
| Kyphosis |
a factor telling whether a postoperative deformity (kyphosis)
is "present" or "absent" .
|
| Age |
the age of the child in months.
|
| Number |
the number of vertebrae involved in the operation.
|
| Start |
the beginning of the range of vertebrae involved in the operation.
|
Source
John M. Chambers and Trevor J. Hastie, Statistical Models in S,
Wadsworth and Brooks, Pacific Grove, CA 1992, pg. 200.
Examples
data(kyphosis)
kyph.glm <- glm(Kyphosis ~ Age + Start + Number, family=binomial,
data=kyphosis)