The Child Health and Development Studies

Description

The dataset name has been changed to 'babies_tbl_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets from packages in the R ecosystem and to follow the naming conventions of the 'MedDataSets' package. The suffix '_tbl_df' indicates that this dataset is a tibble, helping to distinguish it from other datasets within the package and from those in the broader R ecosystem. The original content of the dataset has not been modified in any way.

Usage

data(babies_tbl_df)

Format

A tibble with 1,236 observations and 8 variables:

case

An integer indicating the case number.

bwt

An integer representing the birth weight of the infant (in grams).

gestation

An integer indicating the gestation period (in weeks).

parity

An integer representing the number of previous births.

age

An integer indicating the age of the mother (in years).

height

An integer indicating the height of the mother (in cm).

weight

An integer indicating the weight of the mother (in kg).

smoke

An integer indicating whether the mother smoked during pregnancy (1 = yes, 0 = no).

Details

This dataset contains information from the Child Health and Development Studies, focusing on various factors associated with infant health outcomes.

Source

Data collected from the Child Health and Development Studies.