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births

Births in a London Hospital


Description

Data from 500 singleton births in a London Hospital

Usage

data(births)

Format

A data frame with 500 observations on the following 8 variables.

id: Identity number for mother and baby.
bweight: Birth weight of baby.
lowbw: Indicator for birth weight less than 2500 g.
gestwks: Gestation period.
preterm: Indicator for gestation period less than 37 weeks.
matage: Maternal age.
hyp: Indicator for maternal hypertension.
sex: Sex of baby: 1:Male, 2:Female.

Source

Anonymous

References

Michael Hills and Bianca De Stavola (2002). A Short Introduction to Stata 8 for Biostatistics, Timberlake Consultants Ltd

Examples

data(births)

Epi

Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

v2.44
GPL-2
Authors
Bendix Carstensen [aut, cre], Martyn Plummer [aut], Esa Laara [ctb], Michael Hills [ctb]
Initial release
2021-02-28

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