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quantreg.nonpar (version 1.0)

india: Childhood Malnutrition in India

Description

Demographic and Health Survey data on childhood nutrition in India.

Usage

data(india)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 37623 observations on the following 21 variables.
cheight
child's height (centimeters); a numeric vector
cage
child's age (months); a numeric vector
breastfeeding
duration of breastfeeding (months); a numeric vector
csex
child's sex; a factor with levels male female
ctwin
whether or not child is a twin; a factor with levels single birth twin
cbirthorder
birth order of the child; a factor with levels 1 2 3 4 5
mbmi
mother's BMI (kilograms per meter squared); a numeric vector
mage
mother's age (years); a numeric vector
medu
mother's years of education; a numeric vector
edupartner
father's years of education; a numeric vector
munemployed
mother's employment status; a factor variable with levels unemployed employed
mreligion
mother's religion; a factor variable with levels christian hindu muslim other sikh
mresidence
mother's residential classification; a factor with levels urban rural
wealth
mother's relative wealth; a factor with levels poorest poorer middle richer richest
electricity
electricity access; a factor with levels no yes
radio
radio ownership; a factor with levels no yes
television
television ownership; a factor with levels no yes
refrigerator
refrigerator ownership; a factor with levels no yes
bicycle
bicycle ownership; a factor with levels no yes
motorcycle
motorcycle ownership; a factor with levels no yes
car
car ownership; a factor with levels no yes

Source

http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/research/bandaids/india.Rda

References

Koenker, R. (2011), "Additive models for quantile regression: Model selection and confidence bandaids," Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 25(3), pp. 239-262.