meta data on infert data set
On Feb 1, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
They appear to be technical terms relevant to fertility. You should probably ask someone with a background in medicine... or Google for these terms in conjunction with the word "fertility".
"Parity" is the only technical term and its easy enough to look up in a dictionary. (Or if you do a Google search and choose the first hit you see it accurately defined at least for its biologic meaning. The other two relate to the study design and that why the author put in a citation, which unsurprising brings up the orignal paper as the first hit with a Google search. So, Aziz, please use a bit more initiative.
David Winsemius > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On February 1, 2014 5:57:37 PM PST, "Aziz, Muhammad Fayez" <aziz4 at illinois.edu> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I wanted to know what the following columns mean in the "infert" >> dataset: >> >> >> >> parity count >> matched set number 1-83 >> stratum number 1-63 >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> Fayez >> >> Urbana, IL, USA >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA