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Example code and data for "Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition" by Nina Zumel and John Mount, Manning 2019.

• The book: "Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition" by Nina Zumel and John Mount, Manning 2019 (book copyright Manning Publications Co., all rights reserved)
• The support site: GitHub WinVector/PDSwR2

The code and data in this directory supports examples from:

• Chapter 7: Using Linear and Logistic Regression
• Chapter 9: Exploring Advanced Methods
• Chapter 10: Documentation and Deployment

Data

Data originally downloaded 4-25-2013 from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/Vitalstatsonline.htm

• ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/DVS/natality/UserGuide2010.pdf
• Shasum: 12520b8384defc63a93fad957936fd7ee9a42ef3 UserGuide2010.pdf
• ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/DVS/natality/Nat2010us.zip
• Shasum: dad8b9fc9e8b4a4d250b7febf10d4b97350e2651 Nat2010us.zip

Files:

• README.html : this docuemnt
• README.md : this docuemnt
• UserGuide2010.pdf : original CDC user guide
• NatalBirthData.rData : prepared saved data in R format (produced by prepBirthWeightData.R)
• NatalRiskData.rData : prepared saved data in R format (produced by PrepNatalRiskData.R)
• prepBirthWeightData.R : R steps to prepare birth weight data from natal2010Sample.tsv.gz
• PrepNatalRiskData.R : R steps to prepare natality risk data from natal2010Sample.tsv.gz
• gamSplinePlots.R : some plotting examples
• natal2010Sample.tsv.gz : a uniform sample of the Natality risk data in gzipped TSV format (produced by procedures in loadExample directory)
• loadExample : detailed procedures used to prepare the data

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