abd (version 0.1-21)

DayOfBirth: Day of Birth

Description

Day of the week for 350 U.S. births in 1999.

Usage

data(DayOfBirth)

source

Ventura, S.J., J.A. Martin, S.C. Curtin, F. Menacker, and B.E. Hamilton. 2001. Births: final data for 1999. National Vital Statistics Reports Vol. 49, No. 1.

References

http://cdc.gov/NCHS/products/nvsr.htm

Examples

data(DayOfBirth)
DayOfBirth
barchart( day ~ births, DayOfBirth)

# fix bad ordering of days
DayOfBirth$oday <- with(DayOfBirth, ordered(day, levels = day))
barchart( oday ~ births, DayOfBirth)
barchart( births ~ oday, DayOfBirth, horizontal = FALSE)
barchart( births ~ oday, DayOfBirth, horizontal = FALSE, 
 scales = list(x=list(rot=45)))

barplot(DayOfBirth$births,
  ylim = c(0, 70),
  names.arg = DayOfBirth$day,
  las = 2,
  mgp = c(3, 0.75, 0))