Body {OTE}

Exploring Relationships in Body Dimensions

Description

The Body data set consists of 507 observations on 24 predictor variables including age, weight, hight and 21 body dimensions. All the 507 observations are on individuals, 247 men and 260 women, in the age of twenties and thirties with a small number of old people. The class variable is gender having two categories male and female.

Usage

data(Body)

Format

A data frame with 507 observations recorded on the following 25 variables.

Biacrom

The diameter of Biacrom taken in centimeter.

Biiliac

"Pelvic breadth" measured in centimeter.

Bitro

Bitrochanteric whole diameter measured in centimeter.

ChestDp

The depth of Chest of a person in centimeter between sternum and spine at nipple level.

ChestD

The diameter of Chest of a person in centimeter at nipple level.

ElbowD

The sum of diameters of two Elbows in centimeter.

WristD

Sum of two Wrists diameters in centimeter.

KneeD

The sum of the diameters of two Knees in centimeter.

AnkleD

The sum of the diameters of two Ankles in centimeter.

ShoulderG

The wideness of shoulder in centimeter.

ChestG

The circumference of chest centimeter taken at nipple line for males and just above breast tissue for females.

WaistG

The circumference of Waist in centimeter taken as the average of contracted and relaxed positions at the narrowest part.

AbdG

Girth of Abdomin in centimeter at umbilicus and iliac crest, where iliac crest is taken as a landmark.

HipG

Girth of Hip in centimeter at level of bitrochanteric diameter.

ThighG

Average of left and right Thigh girths in centimeter below gluteal fold.

BicepG

Average of left and right Bicep girths in centimeter.

ForearmG

Average of left and right Forearm girths, extended, palm up.

KneeG

Average of left and right Knees girths over patella, slightly flexed position.

CalfG

Average of right and left Calf maximum girths.

AnkleG

Average of right and left Ankle minimum girths.

WristG

Average of left and right minimum circumferences of Wrists.

Age

Age in years

Weight

Weight in kilogram

Height

Height in centimeter

Gender

Binary response with two categories; 1 - male, 0 - female

Source

Heinz, G., Peterson, L.J., Johnson, R.W. and Kerk, C.J. (2003), “Exploring Relationships in Body Dimensions”, Journal of Statistics Education , 11.

References

Hurley, C. (2012), “ gclus: Clustering Graphics”, R package version 1.3.1, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gclus.

Examples

data(Body)
str(Body)