| medcare {catdata} | R Documentation |
The medcare data was collected on 4406 individuals,
aged 66 and over, that were covered by medcare,
a public insurence program
data(medcare)
A data frame with 4406 observations on the following 9 variables.
ofpnumber of physician office visits
hospnumber of hospital stays
healthpoorindivudual has a poor health (reference: average health)
healthexcellentindivudual has a excellent health
numchronnumber of chronic conditions
malefemale = 0, male = 1
ageage of individual (centered around 60)
marriedmarried = 1, else = 0
schoolyears of education
http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1997-v12.3/deb-trivedi/
US National Medical Expenditure Survey in 1987/88
## Not run:
##example of analysis:
vignette("count-medcare")
vignette("prediction-medcare")
## End(Not run)