| diabetes {mplot} | R Documentation |
Blood and other measurements in diabetics
Description
The diabetes data frame has 442 rows and 11 columns. These are the data used in Efron et al. (2004).
Usage
data(diabetes)
Format
A data frame with 442 observations on 11 variables.
- age
Age
- sex
Gender
- bmi
Body mass index
- map
Mean arterial pressure (average blood pressure)
- tc
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)? Desirable range: below 200 mg/dL
- ldl
Low-density lipoprotein ("bad" cholesterol)? Desirable range: below 130 mg/dL
- hdl
High-density lipoprotein ("good" cholesterol)? Desirable range: above 40 mg/dL
- tch
Blood serum measurement
- ltg
Blood serum measurement
- glu
Blood serum measurement (glucose?)
- y
A quantitative measure of disease progression one year after baseline
Details
Data sourced from http://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/LARS
References
Efron, B., Hastie, T., Johnstone, I., Tibshirani, R., (2004). Least angle regression. The Annals of Statistics 32(2) 407-499. DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000067
Examples
data(diabetes)
full.mod = lm(y~.,data=diabetes)