R: Human parasitic worm infections

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## Human parasitic worm infections

### Description

These data record the occurence of a human parasitic worm infection in residents of a rural community in China.

The variables are:

`Age` | age of the resident
`Infection` | presence (1) or absence (0) of infection
`Sex` | male (1) or female (2)

The background to the data, and an analysis, are described by Weidong et al. (1996), Ascaris, people and pigs in a rural community of Jiangxi province, China, Parasitology 113, 545-57.

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