india {expectreg}

Malnutrition of Childen in India

Description

Data sample from a 'Demographic and Health Survey' about malnutrition of children in india. Data set only contains 1/10 of the observations and some basic variables to enable first analyses.

Usage

data(india)

Format

A data frame with 4000 observations on the following 6 variables.

stunting

A numeric malnutrition score with range (-600;600).

cbmi

BMI of the child.

cage

Age of the child in months.

mbmi

BMI of the mother.

mage

Age of the mother in years.

distH

The distict in India, where the child lives. Encoded in the region naming of the map india.bnd.

Source

https://dhsprogram.com

References

Fenske N and Kneib T and Hothorn T (2009) Identifying Risk Factors for Severe Childhood Malnutrition by Boosting Additive Quantile Regression Technical Report 052, University of Munich

Examples

data(india)

expreg <- expectreg.ls(stunting ~ rb(cbmi),smooth="fixed",data=india,
lambda=30,estimate="restricted",expectiles=c(0.01,0.05,0.2,0.8,0.95,0.99))
plot(expreg)