vat_ext {mecor}

Visceral adipose tissue external data [external covariate-validation study]

Description

Waist circumference, visceral adipose tissue, sex, age, and total body fat of 100 individuals

Usage

vat_ext

Format

A data frame with 100 rows and 5 variables:

wc

Waist circumference (standardised, cm)

vat

Visceral adipose tissue (standardised, cm^2)

sex

Sex (0 = male, 1 = female)

age

Age (years)

tbf

Total body fat (standardised, %)

Details

This is a simulated data set accompanying the dataset "vat", that is inspired by the NEO data <doi:10.1007/s10654-013-9801-3>. A motivating example using the example data can be found here: <doi:10.1093/aje/kwab114>

References

Renee de Mutsert, Martin den Heijer, Ton J Rabelink, Johannes WA Smit, Johannes A Romijn, Johan W Jukema, Albert de Roos, Christa M Cobbaert, Margreet Kloppenburg, Saskia le Cessie, Saskia Middeldorp, Frits R Rosendaal. The Netherlands epidemiology of obesity (NEO) study: Study design and data collection. European Journal of Epidemiology (2013). <doi:10.1007/s10654-013-9801-3>

Linda Nab, Maarten van Smeden, Renee de Mutsert, Frits R Rosendaal, and Rolf HH Groenwold. Sampling strategies for internal validation samples for exposure measurement error correction: A study of visceral adipose tissue measures replaced by waist circumference measures. American Journal of Epidemiology (2021). <doi:10.1093/aje/kwab114>

Examples

data("vat_ext", package = "mecor")