AIS {GLMsData}

Australian Institute of Sports (AIS) data

Description

Physical measurements and blood measurements from high performance athletes at the AIS

Usage

data(AIS)

Format

A data frame containing 202 observations with the following 13 variables.

Sex

the sex of the athlete: F means female, and M means male

Sport

the sport of the athlete; one of BBall (basketball), Field, Gym (gymnastics), Netball, Rowing, Swim (swimming), T400m, (track, further than 400m), Tennis, TPSprnt (track sprint events), WPolo (waterpolo)

LBM

lean body mass, in kg

Ht

height, in cm

Wt

weight, in kg

BMI

body mass index, in kg per metre-squared

SSF

sum of skin folds

PBF

percentage body fat

RBC

red blood cell count, in 10^{12} per litre

WBC

white blood cell count, in 10^{12} per litre

HCT

hematocrit, in percent

HGB

hemoglobin concentration, in grams per decilitre

Ferr

plasma ferritins, in ng per decilitre

Details

The data give measurements from high-performance athletes from the Australian Institute of Sport (ais), for 202 athletes (102 males; 100 females) on 13 variables. Telford and Cunningham (1991) provide more information on how the data were collected.

From the paper: “The main aim of the statistical analysis was to determine whether there were any hematological differences, on average, between athletes from the various sports, between the sexes, and whether there was an effect of mass or height” (p. 789).

Source

OzDASL, available on-line at http://www.statsci.org/data/.

References

Telford, R. D. and Cunningham, R. B. (1991) Sex, sport, and body-size dependency of hematology in highly trained athletes. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 23(7):788–794.

Examples

   data(AIS)
   summary(AIS)