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humanNeonatal: Human male birth mass, gestation length, and neonatal survival

Description

Karn and Penrose's (1951) dataset on the survival of human male infants, their birth wieghts in 0.23 kg (half pound) increments, and their gestation lengths in 5 day increments.

Usage

humansNeonatal

Source

Transcribed by Dolph Schluter from Karn and Penrose 1951.

Format

a data frame

References

Karn, M. N., and L. S. Penrose. 1951. Birth weight and gestation time in relation to maternal age, parity and infant survival. Annals fo Eugenics 16: 147-164.

Schluter, D. 1988. Estimating the form of natural selection on a quantitative trait. Evolution 42: 849-861.

Schluter, D., and D. Nychka. 1994. Exploring fitness surfaces. The american Naturalist 143: 597-616.

M.B. Morrissey and K. Sakrejda. 2013. Unification of regression-based methods for the analysis of natural selection. Evolution 67: 2094-2100.