births


Data from 500 singleton births in a London Hospital


datasets

Functions for demographic and epidemiological analysis in
the Lexis diagram, i.e. register and cohort follow-up data, in
particular representation, manipulation and simulation of multistate
data - the Lexis suite of functions, which includes interfaces to
mstate, etm and cmprsk packages.
Also contains functions for Age-Period-Cohort modeling and a
function for interval censored data and some useful functions for
tabulation and plotting, as well some epidemiological datasets.

Bendix Carstensen

A Package for Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

births function

A data frame with 500 observations on the following 8 variables.
  <table><tr><td>
    <code>id</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Identity number for mother and baby. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>bweight</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Birth weight of baby. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>lowbw</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Indicator for birth weight less than 2500 g. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>gestwks</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Gestation period. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>preterm</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Indicator for gestation period less than 37 weeks. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>matage</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Maternal age. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>hyp</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Indicator for maternal hypertension. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>sex</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Sex of baby: 1:Male, 2:Female. </td>
</tr></table>

births: Births in a London Hospital

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