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Body Fat data set
Description
Penrose body fat data set. Response variable is the percentage of body fat and covariates represent several physiologic measurements related to 252 men. All covariates were rescaled dividing their original value by 100.
Usage
data(BF)
Format
Data frame containing 252 observations on 14 variables.
- bodyfat
percentage of body fat obtained through underwater weighting.
- age
age in years/100.
- weight
weight in lbs/100.
- height
height in inches/100.
- neck
neck circumference in cm/100.
- chest
chest circumference in cm/100.
- abdomen
abdomen circumference in cm/100.
- hip
hip circumference in cm/100.
- thigh
thigh circumference in cm/100.
- knee
knee circumference in cm/100.
- ankle
ankle circumference in cm/100.
- biceps
biceps circumference in cm/100.
- forearm
forearm circumference in cm/100.
- wrist
wrist circumference in cm/100.
Source
Data is freely available from Penrose et al. (1985). See also Brimacombe (2016) and Barreto-Souza, Mayrink and Simas (2020) for details.
References
arXiv:2003.05157 (Barreto-Souza, Mayrink and Simas; 2020)
DOI:10.1249/00005768-198504000-00037 (Penrose et al.; 1985)
DOI:10.4236/ojs.2016.61010 (Brimacombe; 2016)
Examples
data(BF)