R: Births in a London Hospital

births {Epi} | R Documentation

## 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)

[Package Epi version 2.42 Index]