Data on Depression

Description

The Ginzberg data frame has 82 rows and 6 columns. The data are for psychiatric patients hospitalized for depression.

Usage

Ginzberg

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

simplicity

Measures subject's need to see the world in black and white.

fatalism

Fatalism scale.

depression

Beck self-report depression scale.

adjsimp

Adjusted Simplicity: Simplicity adjusted (by regression) for other variables thought to influence depression.

adjfatal

Adjusted Fatalism.

adjdep

Adjusted Depression.

Source

Personal communication from Georges Monette, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, with the permission of the original investigator.

References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.