Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Food poisoning

Keywords:

crab salad, potato salad

Categories:

health;
generalized linear models

Description:

The data come from a study following an outbreak of food poisoning after a function held for personel of an insurance company. Questionnaires were completed by 304 of the 320 people who went on the outing.

There are eight observations on four variables.

Variables:

Count	The number of people in each category
Crab	Whether the person ate crab salad: one of Crab or NoCrab
Potato	Whether the person ate potato salad: one of Potato or NoPotato
Sick	Whether the person became sick; one of Sick or NotSick

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

Korff FA, Taback MAM, and Beard JH (1952). A coordinated investigation of a food poisoning outbreak, Public Health reports, volume 67, no.6, p 909–913. In Bishop YMM, Fienberg SE and Holland WP (1975). Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice, MIT Press Cambridge, Mass. 90–91.

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