birthweight {LearnBayes}R Documentation

Birthweight regression study

Description

Dobson describes a study where one is interested in predicting a baby's birthweight based on the gestational age and the baby's gender.

Usage

birthweight

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 3 variables.

age
gestational age in weeks
gender
gender of the baby where 0 (1) is male (female)
weight
birthweight of baby in grams

Source

Dobson, A. (2001), An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, New York: Chapman and Hall.


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