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unitquantreg (version 0.0.6)

bodyfat: Percentage of body fat data set

Description

The body fat percentage of individuals assisted in a public hospital in Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.

Usage

data(bodyfat, package = "unitquantreg")

Arguments

Format

A data.frame with 298 observations and 9 columns:

  • arms: Arms fat percentage.

  • legs: Legs fat percentage.

  • body: Body fat percentage.

  • android: Android fat percentage.

  • gynecoid: Ginecoid fat percentage.

  • bmi: Body mass index - 24.71577.

  • age: Age - 46.00.

  • sex: Sex of individual. Female or male.

  • ipaq: Factor variable indicating the sedentary, insufficiently active or active.

Author

André F. B. Menezes

Josmar Mazucheli

References

Petterle, R. R., Bonat, W. H., Scarpin, C. T., Jonasson, T., and Borba, V. Z. C., (2020). Multivariate quasi-beta regression models for continuous bounded data. The International Journal of Biostatistics, 1--15, (preprint).

Mazucheli, J., Leiva, V., Alves, B., and Menezes A. F. B., (2021). A new quantile regression for modeling bounded data under a unit Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with applications in medicine and politics. Symmetry, 13(4) 1--21.