birthweight: Birth data

birthweightR Documentation

Birth data

Description

A random sample of US birth data in 2022 (birth weight and covariates). Precare and Education should be treated as factors.

Usage

data(birthweight)

Format

An object of class data.frame with 50000 rows and 12 columns.

Source

Data file https://data.nber.org/nvss/natality/csv/2022/natality2022us.csv from NBER https://www.nber.org/research/data/vital-statistics-natality-birth-data. Original source from the National Center for Health Statistics https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm.

References

Koenker, R. (2005). Quantile Regression. Cambridge University Press.


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