BODYFAT {regclass}

BODYFAT data

Description

Popular Bodyfat dataset

Usage

data("BODYFAT")

Format

A data frame with 252 observations on the following 14 variables.

BodyFat

a numeric vector indicating the percentage body fat 0-100

Age

a numeric vector, yrs

Weight

a numeric vector, lbs

Height

a numeric vector, inches

Neck

a numeric vector

Chest

a numeric vector

Abdomen

a numeric vector

Hip

a numeric vector

Thigh

a numeric vector

Knee

a numeric vector

Ankle

a numeric vector

Biceps

a numeric vector

Forearm

a numeric vector

Wrist

a numeric vector

Details

Bodyfat can be accurately measured by the hydrostatic technique, where someone is submereged in a tank of water. It would be useful to be able to predict body fat from measurements that are simpler to obtain. Unless otherwise specified, all physical measurements are in centimeters.

Source

This is a modified version of the data available in “Fitting Percentage of Body Fat to Simple Body Measurements" as appearing in Journal of Statistics Education v4 n1 (1996). http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n1/datasets.johnson.html