Case-control studies help determine whether certain exposures are associated with outcomes such as developing cancer. The built-in datasetesophcontains data from a case-control study in France comparing people with esophageal cancer (cases, counted inncases) to people without esophageal cancer (controls, counted inncontrols) that are carefully matched on a variety of demographic and medical characteristics. The study compares alcohol intake in grams per day (alcgp) and tobacco intake in grams per day (tobgp) across cases and controls grouped by age range (agegp).

The dataset is available in base R and can be called with the variable nameesoph:

head(esoph)

You will be using this dataset to answer the following four multi-part questions (Questions 3-6).

You may wish to use thetidyversepackage:

library(tidyverse)

The following threeparts have you explore some basic characteristics of the dataset.

Each row contains one group of the experiment. Each group has a different combination of age, alcohol consumption, and tobacco consumption. The number of cancer cases and number of controls (individuals without cancer)are reported for each group.

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