Description of 100 hypothetical deliveries from a midwestern hospital.
These data are simulated in a way to be similar to data collected from a midwestern hospital. However they are not actual clinical data.
data(Delivery)A data frame with 100 rows and 15 variables.
| maternal.id | Mother's ID number (repeats for twins) |
| child.id | Child ID; given by appending a letter to the maternal id. The letter represents the birth order when multiples are delivered. |
| maternal.age | Mother's age at time of delivery. |
| grava | Total number of pregnancies the mother has experienced (including current pregnancy) |
| para | Total number of prior live births |
| ga.weeks | Gestational age; the whole number of weeks the mother has been pregnant. |
| ga.days | Gestational age; a number between 0 and 6. This may be added to ga.weeks to get the total gestational age. |
| delivery.type | Denotes if the delivery was vaginal or cesarean. |
| child.sex | Biological sex of the child |
| vaginal.type | Denotes if a vaginal delivery was spontaneous (natural) or instrument assisted |
| wt.gram | Birth weight in grams |
| apgar1 | 1 minute APGAR score |
| apgar5 | 5 minute APGAR score |
| laceration | Binary indicator for laceration. 0 = No, 1 = Yes. Only applies to vaginal deliveries |
| laceration.degree | Description of the severity of laceration. |