Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Source: R/SIDS.R

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome sample data for North Carolina counties, two time periods (1974-78 and 1979-84). Same as SIDS data set, except that the computed rates are included.

SIDS

Format

An sf data frame with 100 rows, 17 variables, and a geometry column:

AREA

County area (computed by ArcView)

PERIMETER

County perimeter (computed by ArcView)

CNTY_ID

County internal ID

NAME

County name

FIPS

County fips code, as character (state code and county code)

FIPSNO

County fips code, numeric, used in GeoDa User’s Guide and tutorials

CRESS_ID

County ID used by Cressie (1993)

BIR74

Live births, 1974-78

SID74

SIDS deaths, 1974-78

NWBIR74

Non-white births, 1974-78

BIR79

Live births, 1979-84

SID79

SIDS deaths, 1979-84

NWBIR79

Non-white births, 1979-84

SIDR74

SIDS death rate per 1,000 (1974-78)

SIDR79

SIDS death rate per 1,000 (1979-84)

NWR74

Non-white birth rate (non-white per 1000 births), 1974-78

NWR79

Non-white birth rate (non-white per 1000 births), 1979-84

Source

Cressie, N. (1993). Statistics for Spatial Data. New York, Wiley, pp. 386-389. Rates computed.

Details

Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(SIDS)
  plot(SIDS["BIR74"])
}