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llbw: Longitudinal Low Birth Weight study data

Description

Longitudinal Low Birth Weight study data

Format

A data.frame with $200$ observations (rows) and $8$ variables (columns).

Details

A hypothetical data set based on the reference below.

The woman age 45 was excluded as an outlier.

A hypothetical additional number ($1$ to $3$) of births was generated for each woman, yielding an average of $2.6$ births per woman.

This is a subset of the original dataset.

Columns are:

ID

Identification code.

BIRTH

Birth number. $1$ to $4$.

SMOKE

Smoking status during pregnancy (factor):

0

no

1

yes

RACE

Race (factor):

1

white

2

black

3

other

AGE

Age of mother.

LWT

Weight of mother (lbs) at last menstrual period.

BWT

Birth weight (grams).

LBW

Low birth weight? (factor):

0

BWT > 2500g

1

BWT <= 2500g

References

H&L 2nd ed. Sections 1.6.2 and 8.3.