births: A dataset of information at birth for 44 babies

birthsR Documentation

A dataset of information at birth for 44 babies

Description

On December 18, 1997, 44 babies were born in a hospital in Brisbane, Australia. This dataset contains their birth times and other information at birth.

Usage

births

Format

A data frame with 44 rows and 4 variables, sorted in ascending order of birth time. (The time window is 24 hours, i.e., 44 babies were born in 24 hours.)

sex

Gender of the baby.

weight_g

Weight (in grams) at birth.

minutes

Time of birth converted to minutes since midnight.

diffs

Difference (in minutes) between consecutive birth times.

Source

Dunn, "A Simple Dataset for Demonstrating Common Distributions," Journal of Statistics Education v.7, n.3 (1999)


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