lbw: Risk Factors Associated with Low Infant Birth Weight

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

The 'lbw' data frame has 189 rows and 6 columns. The data were collected at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass during 1986. The original data set is from the 'MASS' package.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 189 rows and 6 columns:

low

factor for whether the birth weight is <= 2.5 kg or > 2.5 kg.

age

age of the mother in years.

weight

weight of mother in kg at last menstrual period.

black

indicator for mother's race being black.

other

indicator for mother's race being other.

smoker

indicator for mother's smoking status during pregnancy.

Source

Hosmer, D.W. and Lemeshow, S. (1989) *Applied Logistic Regression*. New York: Wiley

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) *Modern Applied Statistics with S*. Fourth edition. Springer.


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