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This dataset, children_respiratory_rates_df, is a data frame containing respiratory rate measurements from 618 Italian children aged between 15 days and 3 years, collected to establish normal respiratory rate distributions for clinical assessment.

Usage

data(children_respiratory_rates_df)

Format

A data frame with 618 observations and 2 variables:

Age

Child's age in days (numeric vector)

Rate

Respiratory rate in breaths per minute (integer vector)

Source

Data taken from the Sleuth3 package version 1.0-6

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'children_respiratory_rates_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the PulmoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.