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BODYFAT: BODYFAT data

Description

Popular Bodyfat dataset

Usage

data("BODYFAT")

Arguments

Format

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

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

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.