Description

621 people born with Spina Bifida (a congenital disorder) in the state of New York between 1969 and 1974 are observed by three sources: birth certificates (S1); death certificates (S2); and medical rehabilitation lists (S3). The people are also cross-classified according to their ethnicity (eth; 3 levels).

Usage

Format

A "data.frame" with 24 observations on the following 5 variables.

y

Counts in each cell of the table with NAs for the cells corresponding to not being observed by any of the sources.

S1

A factor with levels un obs indicating whether the birth certificate source observed the person.

S2

A factor with levels un obs indicating whether the death certificate source observed the person.

S3

A factor with levels un obs indicating whether the medical rehabilitation source observed the person.

eth

A factor with levels afro-american caucasian codeother indicating the ethnicity of the person (afro-american = Afro-American, causcasian = Caucasian, other = Other).

Details

See Madigan & York (1997), and the references therin, for more details on the study.

For details on the function bict applied to this data, see Overstall & King (2014).

Source

Madigan, D. & York, J.C. (1997) Methods for Estimation of the Size of a Closed Population. Biometrika, 84 (1), 19–31.

References

Overstall, A.M. & King, R. (2014) conting: An R package for Bayesian analysis of complete and incomplete contingency tables. Journal of Statistical Software, 58 (7), 1–27. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v58/i07/

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