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Exercise, Food Intake, and Weight Loss

Description

A fabricated dataset constructed by Darlington (1990) to demonstrate the importance of including all relevant variables in an analysis. This dataset contains information about exercise, food intake, and weight loss for a fictional set of dieters.

Usage

Exercise

Format

A data frame with 10 rows and 4 variables:

ID

case number

Exercise

average daily number of hours exercised in that week

FoodIntake

average daily number of calories consumed in one particular week that is more than a baseline of 1,000 calories, as measured in increments of 100 calories

WeightLoss

number of pounds lost in that week

References

"Regression and linear models." Darlington, R. B. (1990, ISBN:978-0070153721)