Low birth weight is an outcome that has been of concern
  to physicians for years. This is due to the fact that
  infant mortality rates and birth defect rates are very
  high for babies with low birth weight. A woman's behavior
  during pregnancy (including diet, smoking habits, and
  obtaining prenatal care) can greatly alter her chances of
  carrying the baby to term and, consequently, of
  delivering a baby of normal birth weight. The goal of the
  study was to identify risk factors associated with giving
  birth to a low birth weight baby.

datasets

Data sets and utilities from Project MOSAIC
        (mosaic-web.org) used to teach mathematics, statistics,
        computation and modeling.  Funded by the NSF, Project MOSAIC is
        a community of educators working to tie together aspects of
        quantitative work that students in science, technology,
        engineering and mathematics will need in their professional
        lives, but which are usually taught in isolation, if at all.

Randall Pruim

mosaic

Project MOSAIC (mosaic-web.org) statistics and mathematics
        teaching utilities

LBW function

A data frame with 189 observations on the following variables.<p></p><p>   <ul><li><code>low</code></li></ul> {low birth weight (0=No (birth weight >= 2500 g) 1=Yes (birth weight < 2500 g)}
    <item><code>age</code></item> {age of mother (in years)}
    <item><code>momweight</code></item> {weight of mother at the last menstrual period (in pounds)}
    <item><code>race</code></item> {race of mother (1 = White, 2 = Black, 3 = Other)}
    <item><code>smoke</code></item> {Smoking status during pregnancy (0 = No, 1 = Yes)}
    <item><code>histpreterm</code></item> {history of premature labor (0 = None, 1 = One, etc.)}
    <item><code>hypertension</code></item> {history of hypertension (0 = No, 1 = Yes)}
    <item><code>uterineirrit</code></item> {presence of uterine irritability (0 = No, 1 = Yes)}
    <item><code>numvisit</code></item> {number of physician visits during the first trimester}
    <item><code>birthweight</code></item> {the actual birth weight (in grams)}</p>

LBW: Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight

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