NHANES data

Description

Dataset used in Chapter 12 of Regression Methods in Biostatistics (2nd edition), as distributed on the UCSF companion website. Study design: Complex multistage cross-sectional sample from NHANES III. Primary article: Plan and operation of NHANES III (NCHS, 1994).

Usage

nhanes3

Format

A data frame with 18162 rows and 9 variables:

sdppsu6
PSU identifier
sdpstra6
stratum identifier
wtpfqx6
inverse probability weight
female
Indicator for female sex.
aframer
African American
mexamer
Mexican American
othereth
Other race/ethnicity
age10
age (per 10 years)
diabetes
Indicator for diabetes diagnosis.

Source

UCSF companion data