On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the InfantMortality data set which pertains to InfantMortality. The InfantMortality data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the InfantMortality data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("InfantMortality"). This will load the data into a variable called InfantMortality. If R says the InfantMortality data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the InfantMortality R data set. The size of this file is about 101 bytes.

InfantMortality

Description

Infant mortality rates in the United States (1920-2000)

Format

A dataset with 9 observations on the following 2 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Mortality	Deaths witin one year of birth (per 1000 births
Year	1920-2000 (by decades)

Details

Infant mortality (deaths within one year of birth per 1,000 births) in the US from 1920 - 2000 (by decade).

Source

CDC National Vital Statistics Reports at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57 14.pdf

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.