heart: Risk factors associated with heart disease
Description
Data from a subset of the Coronary Risk-Factor Study
baseline survey, carried out in rural South Africa. The variables are
as follows:
- sbp: Systolic blood pressure
- tobacco: Cumulative tobacco consumption, in kg
- ldl: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
- adiposity: Adipose tissue concentration
- famhist: Family history of heart disease; either "Present" or
"Absent"
- typea: Score on test designed to measure type-A behavior
- obesity: Obesity
- alcohol: Current consumption of alcohol
- age: Age of subject
- chd: Coronary heart disease at baseline; 1=Yes 0=No
format
A data frame with 462 observations on 10 variablessource
http://www-stat-class.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/References
Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., and Friedman, J. (2001). The
Elements of Statistical Learning. Springer.
Rousseauw, J., et al. (1983). Coronary risk factor screening in three
rural communities. South African Medical Journal, 64,
430-436.