diabetes {fsdaR}

Diabetes data

Description

The diabetes dataset, introduced by Reaven and Miller (1979), consists of 145 observations (patients). For each patient three measurements are reported: plasma glucose response to oral glucose, plasma insulin response to oral glucose, degree of insulin resistance.

Usage

    data("diabetes")

Format

A data frame with the following variables:

glucose

Area under plasma glucose curve after a three hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

insulin

Area under plasma insulin curve after a three hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

sspg

Steady state plasma glucose.

class

The type of diabete: Normal, Overt, and Chemical.

Source

Reaven, G. M. and Miller, R. G. (1979). An attempt to define the nature of chemical diabetes using a multidimensional analysis. Diabetologia 16:17-24.

Examples

library(rrcov)
data(diabetes)
head(diabetes)
plot(CovMcd(diabetes[, 1:3]), which="pairs", col=diabetes$class)