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lowbwt: Low Birth Weight

Description

A consolidation of the concepts learnt the later half of the book is worked trough using this example.

Usage

data(lowbwt)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 189 observations on the following 10 variables.
LOW
indicator of birth weight less than 2.5kg
AGE
mother's age in years
LWT
mother's weight in pounds at last menstrual period
RACE
mothers race ("white", "black", "other")
SMOKE
smoking status during pregnancy
PTL
number of previous premature labours
HT
history of hypertension
UI
presence of uterine irritability
FTV
number of physician visits during the first trimester
BWT
birth weight in grams

Source

http://www.statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/data/linmod/birthweight.html

References

Hosmer, D.W. and Lemeshow, S. (2001). Applied Logistic Regression. New York: Wiley.

Examples

Run this code
data(lowbwt)
plot(lowbwt)

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