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Infant Malformation and Mother's Alcohol Consumption Data.
Description
Data from a prospective study of maternal drinking and congenital malformation. Alcohol consumption was measured using a questionnaire (3 months after pregnancy). The presence or absence of congenital sex organ malformation was recorded following childbirth.
Usage
Malformation
Format
A data frame with 5 observations on the following four variables.
Alcohol_consumption
Alcohol consumption measured as average numebr of drinks per day.
Absent
Absence of any congential malformation
Present
Congenital malformation present
Midpoints
Midpoints of the alcohol consumption categories
Details
This data set appears in An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis by Agresti (section 2.5.2, page 35). The original source is cited as B.I.Graubard and E.L.Korn, Biometrics 43: 471-476 (1987).
Source
Agresti, A., 2012. Categorical data analysis (Vol. 792). John Wiley & Sons.
Examples
data(Malformation, package = "R4HCR")
# Chi-square test.
with(Malformation,
chisq.test(cbind(Absent,Present),
simulate.p.value = TRUE))