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birthwt: Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight

Description

The birthwt data frame has 189 rows and 10 columns.

Data was collected at the Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts during 1986 to attempt to identify which factors contributed to an increased risk of low birth weight infants. Information was recorded for 189 women of whom 59 had low birth weight infants.

Usage

data(birthwt)

source

The data were obtained from

Hosmer, D.W. and Lemeshow, S. (1989) Applied Logistic Regression. John Wiley.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Venables, W.N. and Ripley, B.D. (1994) Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Springer-Verlag.