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Birthweight: Birth Weights of Newborns

Description

Some studies suggest that women having their first baby at age 35 or older are at increased risk of having a baby with a low birth weight. A medical researcher wanted to estimate the mean weight back in the population of newborns who are the first child for women over the age of 35. To this end, the researcher chose a random sample of 125 women age 35 or older who were pregnant with their first child and followed them through the pregnancy. The datafile linked below contains the birth weight (in grams) of the 125 newborns (women pregnant with more than one child were excluded from the study).

Usage

data(Birthweight)

Arguments

format

A data frame with 125 observations on the following variables.

  • birthweight
{weights of newborns (in grams)}

References

Part of the Carnegie Mellon University Online Learning Initiative datasets.