NutritionStudy: Nutrition Study

Description Format Details Source References Examples

Description

Variables related to nutrition and health for 315 individuals

Format

A data frame with 315 observations on the following 17 variables.

Details

Data from a cross-sectional study to investigate the relationship between personal characteristics and dietary factors, and plasma concentrations of retinol, beta-carotene and other carotenoids. Study subjects were patients who had an elective surgical procedure during a three-year period to biopsy or remove a lesion of the lung, colon, breast, skin, ovary or uterus that was found to be non-cancerous.

Source

Nierenberg, Stukel, Baron, Dain, and Greenberg, "Determinants of plasma levels of beta-carotene and retinol", American Journal of Epidemiology (1989).

References

Data downloaded from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/.

Examples

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