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Data from the Childhood Respiratory Disease Study collected in the late 1970s to examine the effects of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke. on pulmonary functions in youths.

Usage

data(FEV)

Format

A data.frame with one row for each of 645 youngsters.

  • age in years

  • FEV (forced expiratory lung volume) in liters

  • height in inches

  • sex

  • smoker whether or not the youngster smokes

Source

Cummiskey, et al. (2020) "Causal Inference in Introductory Statistics Courses" Journal of Statistics Education 28(1) doi:10.1080/10691898.2020.1713936