Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Toxoplasmosis and rainfall

Keywords:

rainfall

Categories:

science and engineering;
generalized linear models

Description:

The data give the proportion of people sampled in 34 cities in El Salvador who tested positive for toxoplasmosis.

There are 34 observations on four variables.

Variables:

City	The city from which the data comes
Rainfall	The recorded rainfall in millimetres at each city (presumably annual)
Proportion	The proportion of those sampled who tested positive to toxoplasmosis
Sampled	The number of people sampled in each city

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

B. Efron (1986). Double Exponential Families and Their Use in Generalized Linear Regression, Journal of the American Statistical Association 81(395), pp. 709–721.

Notes:

The subjects are not randomly sampled within city.

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