triceps {MultiKink}

Triceps Skinfold Thickness Dataset

Description

The data are derived from an anthropometric study of 892 females under 50 years in three Gambian villages in West Africa.

Usage

data(triceps)

Format

A data frame with 892 observations on the following 3 variables:

age

Age of respondents.

lntriceps

Log of the triceps skinfold thickness.

triceps

Triceps skinfold thickness.

Source

Cole T.J., Green P.J. (1992). Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood. Statistics in medicine, 11(10): 1305-1319.

References

Cole T.J., Green P.J. (1992). Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood. Statistics in medicine, 11(10): 1305-1319.

Examples

data(triceps)
## maybe str(triceps) ...