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Car seat position depending driver size
Description
Car drivers like to adjust the seat position for their own comfort. Car designers would find it helpful to know where different drivers will position the seat depending on their size and age. Researchers at the HuMoSim laboratory at the University of Michigan collected data on 38 drivers.
Format
The dataset contains the following variables
- Age
Age in years
- Weight
Weight in lbs
- HtShoes
Height in shoes in cm
- Ht
Height bare foot in cm
- Seated
Seated height in cm
- Arm
lower arm length in cm
- Thigh
Thigh length in cm
- Leg
Lower leg length in cm
- hipcenter
horizontal distance of the midpoint of the hips from a fixed location in the car in mm
Source
"Linear Models in R" by Julian Faraway, CRC Press, 2004
[Package faraway version 1.0.8 Index]