bone: Bone Mineral Density Data

In ElemStatLearn: Data Sets, Functions and Examples from the Book: "The Elements of Statistical Learning, Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman

Description

Measurements in the bone mineral density of 261 north american adolescents, as function of age. Each value is the difference in spnbmd taken on two consecutive visits, divided by the average. The age is the average age over the two visits.

Usage

data(bone)

Format

A data frame with 485 observations on the following 4 variables.

idnum

identifies the child, and hence the repeat measurements

age

average of age at two visits

gender

a factor with levels female male

spnbmd

Relative Spinal bone mineral density measurement

Source

Bachrach LK, Hastie T, Wang M-C, Narasimhan B, Marcus R. Bone Mineral Acquisition in Healthy Asian, Hispanic, Black and Caucasian Youth. A Longitudinal Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (1999) 84, 4702-12.

Examples

summary(bone)
# We ignore the repeat measurements:
# smooth.spline is in standard package stats.
names(bone)
# Plot page 128 in the book:
plot(spnbmd ~ age, data=bone, col = 
     ifelse(gender=="male", "blue", "red2"), 
     xlab="Age", ylab="Relative Change in Spinal BMD")
bone.spline.male <- with(subset(bone,gender=="male"),
                smooth.spline(age, spnbmd,df=12))
bone.spline.female <- with(subset(bone, gender=="female"), 
                smooth.spline(age, spnbmd, df=12))
lines(bone.spline.male, col="blue")
lines(bone.spline.female, col="red2")
legend(20,0.20, legend=c("male", "Female"), col=c("blue", "red2"), 
          lwd=2)

Example output

     idnum            age           gender        spnbmd         
 Min.   :  1.0   Min.   : 9.40   female:259   Min.   :-0.064103  
 1st Qu.: 60.0   1st Qu.:12.70   male  :226   1st Qu.: 0.005858  
 Median :124.0   Median :15.40                Median : 0.026591  
 Mean   :151.5   Mean   :16.10                Mean   : 0.039252  
 3rd Qu.:240.0   3rd Qu.:19.15                3rd Qu.: 0.064127  
 Max.   :384.0   Max.   :25.55                Max.   : 0.219913  
[1] "idnum"  "age"    "gender" "spnbmd"

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