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bodyfat: Body Fat

Description

Data consists of estimates of the percentage of body fat determined by underwater weighing and various body circumference measurements for 252 men. The 15 variables are:
  • Density determined from underwater weighing,
  • Percent body fat,
  • Age (years),
  • Weight (lbs),
  • Height (inches),
  • Neck circumference (cm),
  • Chest circumference (cm),
  • Abdomen 2 circumference (cm),
  • Hip circumference (cm),
  • Thigh circumference (cm),
  • Knee circumference (cm),
  • Ankle circumference (cm),
  • Biceps (extended) circumference (cm),
  • Forearm circumference (cm),
  • Wrist circumference (cm).

Usage

data(bodyfat)

Arguments

Format

A list providing a summary of the data. The list contains:
bodyfat$means :
the mean vector, bodyfat$stddev
: the vector of standard deviations,
bodyfat$corr :
the correlation matrix, and bodyfat$means

Source

The data set is available online at StatLib---Datasets Archive http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/bodyfat .

Examples

Run this code
data(bodyfat)
bodyfat$means
bodyfat$stddev
bodyfat$corr
bodyfat$n

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