co.transfer               package:boot               R Documentation

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:

     data(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.

