Airway Data
The airway data frame has 35 rows and 6 columns.
Study to compare two devices (tracheal tube and laryngeal mask) used to secure airway in patients undergoing surgery. The response variable is the presence of a sore throat. Further information on age, sex, use of a lubricant, and duration of the surgery is available.
data(airway)
This data frame contains the following columns:
responsean indicator variable for sore throat (1=yes, 0=no);
typethe type of airway used (1=tracheal tube, 0=laryngeal mask);
agethe age of the patient (in years);
sexan indicator variable for sex (1=male, 0=female);
lubricantan indicator variable for lubricant use (1=yes, 0=no);
durationthe duration of the surgery (in minutes).
The data were obtained from
“Binary Data” by D. Collet in Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (1998).
data(airway) summary(airway) par(mfrow=c(1,2)) plot(age ~ response, data = airway) plot(duration ~ response, data = airway)
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