Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Smoking and respiratory function

Keywords:

lung capacity

Categories:

regression;
health

Description:

The data give information on the health and smoking habits of a sample of 654 youths, aged 3 to 19, in the area of East Boston during middle to late 1970s.

In the full data set, there are 654 observations on 5 variables

The reduced data set contains the 65 observations for smokers only (and hence only 4 variables as Smoke is unnecessary)

Variables:

Age	The age of the subject in completed years
FEV	The forced expiratory volume, a measure of lung capacity, in litres
Ht	Height (in inches)
Gender	The gender of the subject: Females coded as 0, males as 1
Smoke	The smoking status of the subject: 0 means a non-smoker; 1 means a smoker

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

Kahn, Michael (2005). An Exhalent Problem for Teaching Statistics. The Journal of Statistical Education, 13(2). Available on-line

Notes:

References:

Kahn,M. (2003). Data Sleuth, STATS, 37, 24.