Surviving third-degree burns 
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Data: burns.dat 
These data refer to 435 adults who were treated for third-degree
burns by the University of Southern California General Hospital
Burn Center. The patients were grouped according to the area of
third-degree burns on the body. In the table below are recorded,
for each midpoint of the groupings `log(area +1)', the number of
patients in the corresponding group who survived, and the number
who died from the burns.

Number of observations: 435 
Variable   Description  
midpoint   Midpoint of the group corresponding to the patients burn.  
survive   Binary variable: survived=1, died=0  
       
Source: Fan, J., Heckman, N.E. and Wand, M.P. (1995) Local polynomial 
kernel regression for generalised linear models and quasi-likelihood 
functions, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 
90, pp. 141-50.