Description
Birth data for singleton live births with gestational age at least 38 weeks.format
A data frame with 28435 observations on 12 variables.
lll{
Year numeric 2006 -- 2009
Sex character 'male' or 'female'
Live.Still factor 'liveborn' or 'stillborn'
Plurality numeric 'singleton' or others
Gestation numeric Gestational age (in weeks).
Weight numeric birth weight.
Length numeric height.
Head numeric head size.
Chest numeric chest size.
Mother.s.age numeric chest size.
type factor 'r' = rural or 'u' = urban.
region factor region of the birth.
}References
Wang, B. and Wertelecki, W. (2012)
Density Estimation for Data With Rounding Errors.
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
(in press), doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.02.016.