Delivery: Obstetric Delivery Log
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Description of 100 hypothetical deliveries from a midwestern hospital.

These data are simulated in a way to be similar to data collected from a midwestern hospital. However they are not actual clinical data.

1	data(Delivery)

A data frame with 100 rows and 15 variables.

maternal.id	Mother's ID number (repeats for twins)
child.id	Child ID; given by appending a letter to the maternal id. The letter represents the birth order when multiples are delivered.
maternal.age	Mother's age at time of delivery.
grava	Total number of pregnancies the mother has experienced (including current pregnancy)
para	Total number of prior live births
ga.weeks	Gestational age; the whole number of weeks the mother has been pregnant.
ga.days	Gestational age; a number between 0 and 6. This may be added to `ga.weeks` to get the total gestational age.
delivery.type	Denotes if the delivery was vaginal or cesarean.
child.sex	Biological sex of the child
vaginal.type	Denotes if a vaginal delivery was spontaneous (natural) or instrument assisted
wt.gram	Birth weight in grams
apgar1	1 minute APGAR score
apgar5	5 minute APGAR score
laceration	Binary indicator for laceration. 0 = No, 1 = Yes. Only applies to vaginal deliveries
laceration.degree	Description of the severity of laceration.