Table 1.

Exploratory analysis of the Eyam data using Fisher's exact tests.

quality of interest	factor level	plague victims	survivors	total	p-value	significance
gender	male female unknown	133 122 2	211 221 —	344 343 2	0.1308	n.s.
hearth tax	taxed untaxed	52 205	149 283	201 488	<0.0001	extremely
age	under 18 over 18 unknown	116 126 15	160 258 14	276 384 29	0.0136	weakly
prior infection in household	true false	154 103	102 330	256 433	<0.0001	extremely