REFORMINIS LUR STATTUTOR RISK FACTORS FOR LOW BIRTH WEIGHT Problem Low birth weight is an outcome that has been of concern to physicians for years. This is due to the fact that infant mortality rates and birth defect rates are very high for babies with low birth weight. A woman's behavior during pregnancy (including diet smoking habits, and obtaining prenatal care a greatly alter her chances of carrying the baby to term and, consequently, of delivering a baby of normal birth weight. in this exercise, we will use a 1986 study (Hosmer and Lemeshow 2000L Applied Logistic Regression Second Edition in which data were collected from 189 women (of whom 59 had low birth weight infants) at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA (an academic research and teachine hospital that serves as the western Campus of Tufts University School of Medicine and is the only Level 1 trauma center in westem Massachusetts. The goal of the study was to identity risk factors associated with giving birth to a low birth weight baby Click the Questions tab to see the questions about this problem that we will try to answer and the Variables tab to see the DELL REFF F variables in our dataset. Variables
Do the data provide evidence that the occurrence of low birth weight is significantly related to whether or not the mot smoked during pregnancy?