gRbase (version 1.3.9)

BodyFat: Body Fat Data

Description

Estimates of the percentage of body fat determined by underwater weighing and various body circumference measurements for 252 men.

Usage

data(BodyFat)

source

For more information see http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/bodyfat

References

Bailey, Covert (1994). _Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit_, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, pp. 179-186. Behnke, A.R. and Wilmore, J.H. (1974). _Evaluation and Regulation of Body Build and Composition_, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Siri, W.E. (1956), "Gross composition of the body", in _Advances in Biological and Medical Physics_, vol. IV, edited by J.H. Lawrence and C.A. Tobias, Academic Press, Inc., New York. Katch, Frank and McArdle, William (1977). _Nutrition, Weight Control, and Exercise_, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Wilmore, Jack (1976). _Athletic Training and Physical Fitness: Physiological Principles of the Conditioning Process_, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston.

Examples

data(BodyFat)
head(BodyFat)