bp.obese {ISwR}

Obesity and blood pressure

Description

The bp.obese data frame has 102 rows and 3 columns. It contains data from a random sample of Mexican-American adults in a small California town.

Usage

bp.obese

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

sex

a numeric vector code, 0: male, 1: female.

obese

a numeric vector, ratio of actual weight to ideal weight from New York Metropolitan Life Tables.

bp

a numeric vector,systolic blood pressure (mm Hg).

Source

B.W. Brown and M. Hollander (1977), Statistics: A Biomedical Introduction, Wiley.

Examples

plot(bp~obese,pch = ifelse(sex==1, "F", "M"), data = bp.obese)