Spinal Disease in Children Data

SUMMARY:
The kyphosis data frame has 81 rows representing data on 81 children who have had corrective spinal surgery. The outcome Kyphosis is a binary variable, the other three variables (columns) are numeric.

DATA DESCRIPTION:
Kyphosis:
a factor telling whether a postoperative deformity (kyphosis) is "present" or "absent" .
Age:
the age of the child in months.
Number:
the number of vertebrae involved in the operation.
Start:
the beginning of the range of vertebrae involved in the operation.

SOURCE:
John M. Chambers and Trevor J. Hastie, Statistical Models in S, Wadsworth and Brooks, Pacific Grove, CA 1992, pg. 200.

EXAMPLES:
kyph.glm <- glm(Kyphosis ~ Age + Start + Number,
      family = binomial, data = kyphosis)