babyboom {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Babyboom: data for 44 babies born in one 24-hour period.

### Description

The `babyboom` dataset contains the time of birth, sex, and birth weight for 44 babies born in one 24-hour period at a hospital in Brisbane, Australia.

### Usage

    data(babyboom)

### Format

A data frame with 44 observations on the following 4 variables.

clock.time
  Time on clock
gender
  a factor with levels `girl` `boy`
wt
  weight in grams of child
running.time
  minutes after midnight of birth

### Source

This data set was submitted to the Journal of Statistical Education, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n3/datasets.dunn.cfm, by Peter K. Dunn.

### Examples

    data(babyboom)
    hist(babyboom$wt)
    hist(diff(babyboom$running.time))

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]