On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the bwght data set which pertains to bwght. The bwght data set is found in the wooldridge R package. You can load the bwght data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("bwght"). This will load the data into a variable called bwght. If R says the bwght data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("wooldridge") 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 bwght R data set. The size of this file is about 112,321 bytes.

bwght

Description

Data loads lazily. Type data(bwght) into the console.

Usage

data(bwght)

Format

A data.frame with 1388 rows and 14 variables:

• faminc. 1988 family income, $1000s

• cigtax. cig. tax in home state, 1988

• cigprice. cig. price in home state, 1988

• bwght. birth weight, ounces

• fatheduc. father's yrs of educ

• motheduc. mother's yrs of educ

• parity. birth order of child

• male. =1 if male child

• white. =1 if white

• cigs. cigs smked per day while preg

• lbwght. log of bwght

• bwghtlbs. birth weight, pounds

• packs. packs smked per day while preg

• lfaminc. log(faminc)

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(bwght)

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