Child's Wheeze and Mother's Smoking

Keywords: multivariate logistic, multivariate probit, longitudinal binary responses

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The data is a subset from the Six Cities study, a longitudinal study of the health effects of air pollution. The data contain repeated binary measures of the wheezing status (1 = yes, 0 = no) for each of 537 children from Stuebenville, Ohio, at ages 7, 8, 9 and 10 years. Also measured is whether or not the mother was a smoker during the first year of the study.

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Fitzmaurice, G.F.V., and Laird, N.M. (1993). A likelihood-based method for analysing longitudinal binary responses. Biometrika 80, 141-151.

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Siddhartha, C., and Greenberg, E. (1998). Analysis of multivariate probit models. Biometrika 85, 347-361.