Longitudinal Low Birth Weight study data
A data.frame with
\(200\) observations (rows)
and \(8\) variables (columns).
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:
Identification code.
Birth number. \(1\) to \(4\).
Smoking status during pregnancy (factor):
no
yes
Race (factor):
white
black
other
Age of mother.
Weight of mother (lbs) at last menstrual period.
Birth weight (grams).
Low birth weight? (factor):
BWT > 2500g
BWT <= 2500g
H&L 2nd ed. Sections 1.6.2 and 8.3.