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Depression and children

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Keywords:
depression, contingency tables
Categories:
generalized linear models;
health
Description:
The data give the number of women from a sample in Camberwell, South London, who developed depression in a one-year period.

There are 8 counts and three factors.

Variables:
Counts The counts in the categories
Depression 1 means depression was observed; 0 mean it was not
SLE 1 means a Severe Life Event (SLE) occurred; 0 means one did not occur.
Children 1 means the woman had three children under 14; 0 is all other women.
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
The second table from Hand et al. dataset 391.
Notes:
The data have a zero count and so are useful for discussing types of zeros in contingency table, or for finding starting points to fit a Poisson glms.
References:
The original source is Everitt, BS and Smith, AMR (1979). Interactions in a contingency tables: a brief discussion of alternative definitions in Psychological Medicine, 9, 581--583.