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Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and preterm delivery data

Description

Data set associated with a study aimed to evaluate the association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm delivery. For details, see Longnecker et al. (2001).

Usage

data("dde")

Format

A data frame with 2312 observations on the following 2 variables.

DDE

the level of the Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE)

GAD

the gestational age at delivery (GAD), in days.

Source

The dataset can be downloaded from https://github.com/tommasorigon/LSBP/blob/master/Tutorial/dde.RData.

References

Longnecker, M. P., Klebanoff, M. A., Zhou, H., and Brock, J. W. (2001). Association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm and small-for-gestational-age babies at birth. The Lancet, 358(9276):110-114.

Examples

library(DDPstar)
data(dde)
summary(dde)

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