On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the co.transfer data set which pertains to Carbon Monoxide Transfer. The co.transfer data set is found in the boot R package. You can load the co.transfer data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("co.transfer"). This will load the data into a variable called co.transfer. If R says the co.transfer data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("boot") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the co.transfer R data set. The size of this file is about 57 bytes.

Carbon Monoxide Transfer

Description

The co.transfer data frame has 7 rows and 2 columns. Seven smokers with chickenpox had their levels of carbon monoxide transfer measured on entry to hospital and then again after 1 week. The main question being whether one week of hospitalization has changed the carbon monoxide transfer factor.

Usage

co.transfer

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

entry

Carbon monoxide transfer factor on entry to hospital.

week

Carbon monoxide transfer one week after admittance to hospital.

Source

The data were obtained from

Hand, D.J., Daly, F., Lunn, A.D., McConway, K.J. and Ostrowski, E (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Chapman and Hall.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Ellis, M.E., Neal, K.R. and Webb, A.K. (1987) Is smoking a risk factor for pneumonia in patients with chickenpox? British Medical Journal, 294, 1002.

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.