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EX9.BIRTHWEIGHT: Birthweight dataset for Exercise 1 in Chapter 9

Description

Birthweight dataset for Exercise 1 in Chapter 9

Usage

data("EX9.BIRTHWEIGHT")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 553 observations on the following 13 variables.

Source

Adapted from a subset of a study from Nolan and Speed (2000) consisting of male, single births which survived for at least 28 days. Some rows that contained bad data have been omitted. http://had.co.nz/stat645/week-05/birthweight.txt

Details

An examination of birthweights and their link to gestation, mother and father characteristics, and whether the mother smoked during pregnancy.