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miRada (version 1.13.8-8)

birth: Birth data

Description

Birth data for singleton live births with gestational age at least 38 weeks.

Usage

data(birth)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 28435 observations on 12 variables.
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. link