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babies: The Child Health and Development Studies

Description

The Child Health and Development Studies investigate a range of topics. One study, in particular, considered all pregnancies between 1960 and 1967 among women in the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in the San Francisco East Bay area. The goal is to model the weight of the infants (bwt, in ounces) using variables including length of pregnancy in days (gestation), mother's age in years (age), mother's height in inches (height), whether the child was the first born (parity), mother's pregnancy weight in pounds (weight), and whether the mother was a smoker (smoke).

Usage

babies

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 1236 rows and 8 variables:

case

id number

bwt

birthweight, in ounces

gestation

length of gestation, in days

parity

binary indicator for a first pregnancy (0=first pregnancy)

age

mother's age in years

height

mother's height in inches

weight

mother's weight in pounds

smoke

binary indicator for whether the mother smokes