Bahrami1: Body Mass Index Data

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

The medical data set is obtained from an observational study in the Taleghani hospital in Tehran. These data record the Steatosis and BMI for 61 diabetic patients. BMI is a statistical measure of the weight of body mass index. A person scaled height body mass index may be accurately calculated using any of the formulas such as BMI=w/H^2 where W is weight and H is height. As explanatory variable for BMI, duration of diabet is an amount of time or a particular time interval which a person take diabet (a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood suger and other signs). another explanatory variable is gender.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 15 observations on the following 3 variables:DURATION,BMI,GENDER

Source

The medical data set is obtained from an observational study in the Taleghani hospital in Tehran.

References

Bahrami Samani, E., Ganjali, M. and Khodaddadi, A. (2008). A Latent Variable Model for Mixed Continuous and Ordinal Responses. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications. 7(3):337-349.


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