Data sample from a 'Demographic and Health Survey' about malnutrition of children in india.
Data set only contains 1/10 of the observations and some basic variables to enable first analyses.
Usage
data(india)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 4000 observations on the following 6 variables.
stunting
A numeric malnutrition score with range (-600;600).
cbmi
BMI of the child.
cage
Age of the child in months.
mbmi
BMI of the mother.
mage
Age of the mother in years.
distH
The distict in India, where the child lives. Encoded in the region naming
of the map india.bnd.
References
Fenske N and Kneib T and Hothorn T (2009)
Identifying Risk Factors for Severe Childhood Malnutrition
by Boosting Additive Quantile Regression
Technical Report 052, University of Munich