R Dataset / Package COUNT / lbw
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the lbw data set which pertains to lbw. The lbw data set is found in the COUNT R package. You can load the lbw data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("lbw"). This will load the data into a variable called lbw. If R says the lbw data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("COUNT") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. 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 lbw R data set. The size of this file is about 4,955 bytes.
lbw
Description
The data come to us from Hosmer and Lemeshow (2000). Called the low birth weight (lbw) data, the response is a binary variable, low, which indicates whether the birth weight of a baby is under 2500g (low=1), or over (low=0).
Usage
data(lbw)
Format
A data frame with 189 observations on the following 10 variables.
low
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1=low birthweight baby; 0=norml weight
smoke
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1=history of mother smoking; 0=mother nonsmoker
race
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categorical 1-3: 1=white; 2-=black; 3=other
age
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age of mother: 14-45
lwt
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weight (lbs) at last menstrual period: 80-250 lbs
ptl
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number of false of premature labors: 0-3
ht
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1=history of hypertension; 0 =no hypertension
ui
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1=uterine irritability; 0 no irritability
ftv
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number of physician visits in 1st trimester: 0-6
bwt
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birth weight in grams: 709 - 4990 gr
Details
lbw is saved as a data frame. Count models can use ftv as a response variable, or convert it to grouped format
Source
Hosmer, D and S. Lemeshow (2000), Applied Logistic Regression, Wiley
References
Hilbe, Joseph M (2007, 2011), Negative Binomial Regression, Cambridge University Press Hilbe, Joseph M (2009), Logistic Regression Models, Chapman & Hall/CRC
Examples
data(lbw) glmbwp <- glm(ftv ~ low + smoke + factor(race), family=poisson, data=lbw) summary(glmbwp) exp(coef(glmbwp)) library(MASS) glmbwnb <- glm.nb(ftv ~ low + smoke + factor(race), data=lbw) summary(glmbwnb) exp(coef(glmbwnb))
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.