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