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births: Births in a London Hospital

Description

Data from 500 singleton births in a London Hospital

Usage

data(births)

Arguments

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 http://www.timberlake.co.uk

Examples

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data(births)

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