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phbirths

Birth weights in Philadelphia


Description

Data based on a 5

Usage

data(phbirths)

Format

A data frame with 1115 observations on the following 5 variables.

black

is the mother Black?

educ

mother's years of education

smoke

does the mother smoke during pregnancy?

gestate

gestational age in weeks

grams

birth weight in grams

Source

I. T. Elo, G. Rodriguez and H. Lee (2001). Racial and Neighborhood Disparities in Birthweight in Philadelphia. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC 2001.

Examples

data(phbirths)
## maybe str(phbirths) ; plot(phbirths) ...

faraway

Functions and Datasets for Books by Julian Faraway

v1.0.7
GPL
Authors
Julian Faraway <jjf23@bath.ac.uk>
Initial release
2016-02-12

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