gamlss.data (version 5.1-4)

InfMort: Infant Mortality Data

Description

The following data set is not a real data set but is created for the purpose of demonstrating a binomial type response variable. The data set is based on some real data obtained from the Parana State in Brazil in 2010.

Usage

data("InfMort")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 399 observations on the following 11 variables.

x

the x-coordinate

y

the y-coordinate

dead

the number of dead infants

bornalive

the number of infants born alive

IFDM

FIRJAN index of city development

illit

the illiteracy index

lGDP

the logarithm of the gross national product

cli

the proportion of children living in a household with half the basic salary

lpop

the logarithm of the number of people living in each city

PSF

the proportion covered by the family health program

poor

the proportion of individuals low household income per capita

Details

There is geographical information given by the x and y coordidates and also several social-economics variables.

References

Rigby R.A., Stasinopoulos D. M., Heller G. and De Bastiani F., (2019) Distributions for modelling location scale and shape: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC (in press).

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data(InfMort)
# }

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