R Dataset / Package KMsurv / bfeed

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the bfeed data set which pertains to data from Section 1.14. The bfeed data set is found in the KMsurv R package. You can load the bfeed data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("bfeed"). This will load the data into a variable called bfeed. If R says the bfeed data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("KMsurv") 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 bfeed R data set. The size of this file is about 21,818 bytes.

data from Section 1.14

Description

The bfeed data frame has 927 rows and 10 columns.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

duration

Duration of breast feeding, weeks

delta

Indicator of completed breast feeding (1=yes, 0=no)

race

Race of mother (1=white, 2=black, 3=other)

poverty

Mother in poverty (1=yes, 0=no)

smoke

Mother smoked at birth of child (1=yes, 0=no)

alcohol

Mother used alcohol at birth of child (1=yes, 0=no)

agemth

Age of mother at birth of child

ybirth

Year of birth

yschool

Education level of mother (years of school)

pc3mth

Prenatal care after 3rd month (1=yes, 0=no)

Source

Klein and Moeschberger (1997) Survival Analysis Techniques for Censored and truncated data, Springer. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Handbook The Ohio State University, 1995.

Examples

data(bfeed)

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

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