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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.

References

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

Examples

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data(births)

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