BodyFat: Body Measurements

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Description

Percent fat and other body measurements for a sample of men

Format

A dataset with 100 observations on the following 10 variables.

Bodyfat	Percent body fat
Age	Age in years
Weight	Weight in pounds
Height	Height in inches
Neck	Neck circumference in cm.
Chest	Chest circumference in cm.
Abdomen	Abdomen circumference in cm.
Ankle	Ankle circumference in cm.
Biceps	Extended biceps circumference in cm.
Wrist	Wrist circumference in cm.

Details

This is a subset of a larger sample of men who each had a percent body fat estimated by an underwater weighing technique. Other measurements were taken to see how they might be used to predict the body fat percentage.

Source

These data were contributed by Roger Johnson, then at Carleton University, to the Datasets Archive at the Journal of Statistics Education.
https://ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n1/datasets.johnson.html
The data were originally supplied by Dr. A. Garth Fisher, Human Performance Research Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602.

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