mosaic (version 0.2-3)

Gestation: Data from the Child Health and Development Studies

Description

Birth weight, date, and gestational period collected as part of the Child Health and Development Studies in 1961 and 1962. Information about the baby's parents --- age, education, height, weight, and whether the mother smoked is also recorded.

Usage

data(Gestation)

source

The admirable book by Deborah Nolan and Terry Speed describes the data in some detail and provides an Internet site for accessing them: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/statlabs/

Details

The data were presented by Nolan and Speed to address the question of whether there is a link between maternal smoking and the baby's health.

References

D Nolan and T Speed. Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics Through Applications (2000), Springer-Verlag.

Examples

data(Gestation)