The Cholostyramine Data
n=164 men took part in an experiment to see if the drug cholostyramine lowered blood cholesterol levels. The men were supposed to take six packets of cholostyramine per day, but many actually took much less.
data(cholost)
A data frame with 164 observations on the following 2 variables.
Compliance, a numeric vector
Improvement, a numeric vector
In the book, this is used as an example for curve fitting, with two
methods,
traditional least-squares fitting and modern loess.
In the book
is considered linear and polynomial models for the dependence of
Improvement
upon Compliance.
Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R. (1993) An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman and Hall, New York, London.
str(cholost)
summary(cholost)
plot(y ~ z, data=cholost, xlab="Compliance",
ylab="Improvement")
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