This analysis is considering the incidents of births with low infant weight through the use of health records from the North Carolina state center for health and environmental statistics. I will be interested in obtaining summary statistics for the variables contained in the dataset. Of particular interest is the birth weight of infants born by smoking mothers in comparison to birth weight of infants born to non-smoking mothers.
There are several variables under consideration and it would be of interest to explore these variables and there distributions first (univariate analysis) before we can do a comparison of the relationship
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