pneumonR Documentation

data from Section 1.13

Description

The pneumon data frame has 3470 rows and 15 columns.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

chldage

Age child had pneumonia, months

hospital

Indicator for hospitalization for pneumonia (1=yes, 0=no)

mthage

Age of the mother, years

urban

Urban environment for mother (1=yes, 0=no)

alcohol

Alcohol use by mother during pregnancy (1=yes, 0=no)

smoke

Cigarette use by mother during pregnancy (1=yes, 0=no)

region

Region of the coutry (1=northeast, 2=north central, 3=south, 4=west)

poverty

Mother at poverty level (1=yes, 0=no)

bweight

Normal birthweight (>5.5 lbs.) (1=yes, 0=no)

race

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

education

Education of the mother, years of school

nsibs

Number of siblings of the child

wmonth

Month the child was weaned

sfmonth

Month the child on solid food

agepn

Age child in the hospital for pneumonia, months

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(pneumon)