births

<p>Data from 500 singleton births in a London Hospital</p>

datasets

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

Bendix Carstensen

Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

Martyn Plummer

Esa Laara

Michael Hills

births function

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

Format

Births in a London Hospital — births

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



births: Births in a London Hospital

Description

Usage

Arguments

Format

References

Examples

`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.