births {Epi}

Births in a London Hospital

Description

Data from 500 singleton births in a London Hospital

Usage

data(births)

Format

A data frame with 500 observations on the following 8 variables.

id:	Identity number for mother and baby.
bweight:	Birth weight of baby.
lowbw:	Indicator for birth weight less than 2500 g.
gestwks:	Gestation period.
preterm:	Indicator for gestation period less than 37 weeks.
matage:	Maternal age.
hyp:	Indicator for maternal hypertension.
sex:	Sex of baby: 1:Male, 2:Female.

Source

Anonymous

References

Michael Hills and Bianca De Stavola (2002). A Short Introduction to Stata 8 for Biostatistics, Timberlake Consultants Ltd

Examples

data(births)