The Babies Crawling Data

Download the babies crawling data (plain text).

Are babies slower to learn to crawl when the weather is colder? The babies crawling data were collected in a study to investigate this question. Babies in the study who grouped by the month of the year in which they were born. The data file BabiesCrawlingData.txt includes the following variables:

• birth_month — the month of the year in which the babies were born
• avg_crawling_age — the average age in weeks at which the babies born that month learned to crawl, averaged over all babies born that month
• temperature — the average temperature for the month six months after the birth month.

These data were downloaded from the Data and Story Library (external link, opens in new window).

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