Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Cases by Age Group and Injury Mechanism

This dataset, TBI_age_tbl_df, is a tibble containing information from the year 2014 on traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases across different age groups. The dataset provides details on the mechanisms that caused the injuries, the type of injury, the estimated number of observed cases, and the estimated rate of cases per 100,000 people.

Usage

data(TBI_age_tbl_df)

Format

A tibble with 231 observations and 5 variables:

age_group

Age group category (character)

type

Type of traumatic brain injury (character)

injury_mechanism

Mechanism by which the injury occurred (character)

number_est

Estimated number of observed cases in 2014 (numeric)

rate_est

Estimated rate of cases per 100,000 population in 2014 (numeric)

Source

Data taken from Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jessemostipak/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi

Details

The dataset name has been kept as TBI_age_tbl_df to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the NeuroDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix tbl_df indicates that the dataset is a tibble (a modern data frame). The original content has not been modified in any way. Variable names and values are provided exactly as they appear in the source.