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nhanes

Cholesterol data from a US survey

Data extracted from NHANES 2009-2010 on high cholesterol.

data(nhanes)

A data frame with 8591 observations on the following 7 variables.

SDMVPSU: Primary sampling units
SDMVSTRA: Sampling strata
WTMEC2YR: Sampling weights
HI_CHOL: Numeric vector: 1 for total cholesterol over 240mg/dl, 0 under 240mg/dl
race: 1=Hispanic, 2=non-Hispanic white, 3=non-Hispanic black, 4=other
agecat: Age group (0,19] (19,39] (39,59] (59,Inf]
RIAGENDR: Gender: 1=male, 2=female

data(nhanes)
design <- svydesign(id=~SDMVPSU, strata=~SDMVSTRA, weights=~WTMEC2YR, nest=TRUE,data=nhanes)
design

Analysis of Complex Survey Samples

v4.0

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Thomas Lumley

Initial release