grip {gamlss.data}

The hand grip strength data

Description

The data is a subset (only boys) from the data analysyed by Cohen et al. (2010).

Usage

data("grip")

Format

A data frame with 3766 observations on the following 2 variables.

age

the age of the participant

grip

the handgrip strength

Details

Cohen et al. (2010) analysed the of hand grip (HG) strength in relation to gender and age in English schoolchildren. Here there are 3766 observations of the boys.

References

Cohen, D.D.,Voss, C., Taylor, M.J.D., Stasinopoulos, D.M., Delextrat, A. and Sandercock, G.R.H. (2010) Handgrip strength in English schoolchildren, Acta Paediatrica, 99, 1065-1072.

Examples

data(grip)