BodyFat {Lock5Data} | R Documentation |
Body Measurements
Description
Percent fat and other body measurements for a sample of men
Format
A dataset with 100 observations on the following 10 variables.
Bodyfat | Percent body fat |
Age | Age in years |
Weight | Weight in pounds |
Height | Height in inches |
Neck | Neck circumference in cm. |
Chest | Chest circumference in cm. |
Abdomen | Abdomen circumference in cm. |
Ankle | Ankle circumference in cm. |
Biceps | Extended biceps circumference in cm. |
Wrist | Wrist circumference in cm. |
Details
This is a subset of a larger sample of men who each had a percent body fat estimated by an underwater weighing technique. Other measurements were taken to see how they might be used to predict the body fat percentage.
Source
These data were contributed by Roger Johnson, then at Carleton University, to the Datasets Archive at the Journal of Statistics Education.
https://ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n1/datasets.johnson.html
The data were originally supplied by Dr. A. Garth Fisher, Human Performance Research Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602.
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