Data sample from a 'Demographic and Health Survey' about malnutrition of children in india. Data set only contains 1/10 of the observations and some basic variables to enable first analyses.
data(india)A data frame with 4000 observations on the following 6 variables.
stuntingA numeric malnutrition score with range (-600;600).
cbmiBMI of the child.
cageAge of the child in months.
mbmiBMI of the mother.
mageAge of the mother in years.
distHThe distict in India, where the child lives. Encoded in the region naming
of the map india.bnd.
Fenske N and Kneib T and Hothorn T (2009) Identifying Risk Factors for Severe Childhood Malnutrition by Boosting Additive Quantile Regression Technical Report 052, University of Munich
data(india)
expreg <- expectreg.ls(stunting ~ rb(cbmi),smooth="fixed",data=india,
lambda=30,estimate="restricted",expectiles=c(0.01,0.05,0.2,0.8,0.95,0.99))
plot(expreg)
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