A simulated dataset containing measurements of IQ, monthly income, and health scores for 1000 individuals.
Usage
data(healthdat)Format
A data frame with 1000 rows, with each row corresponding to a separate individual. The following 4 variables are included:
- id
Individual ID.
- iq
IQ score.
- income
Gross monthly income (EUR).
- health
Health score (0-100).
Details
In these simulated data, IQ acts as a confounder for the causal effect of income on health. This dataset is primarily used to illustrate point-treatment inverse probability weighting.
References
Van der Wal W.M. & Geskus R.B. (2011). ipw: An R Package for Inverse Probability Weighting. Journal of Statistical Software, 43(13), 1-23. doi:10.18637/jss.v043.i13
Author
Willem M. van der Wal willem@vanderwalresearch.com, Ronald B. Geskus rgeskus@oucru.org