birth: Birth data

In miRada: MicroRNA Microarray Data Analysis

Description

Birth data for singleton live births with gestational age at least 38 weeks.

Usage

data(birth)

Format

A data frame with 28435 observations on 12 variables.

Year	numeric	2006 -- 2009
Sex	character	'male' or 'female'
Live.Still	factor	'liveborn' or 'stillborn'
Plurality	numeric	'singleton' or others
Gestation	numeric	Gestational age (in weeks).
Weight	numeric	birth weight.
Length	numeric	height.
Head	numeric	head size.
Chest	numeric	chest size.
Mother.s.age	numeric	chest size.
type	factor	'r' = rural or 'u' = urban.
region	factor	region of the birth.

References

Wang, B. and Wertelecki, W. (2012) "Density Estimation for Data With Rounding Errors", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, (in press). doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.02.016. link

miRada documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:59 a.m.