R/data.R

In MultiKink: Estimation and Inference for Multi-Kink Quantile Regression

#' Triceps Skinfold Thickness Dataset
#'
#' The data are derived from an anthropometric study of 892 females under 50 years in three Gambian villages in West Africa.
#'
#' @docType data
#' @name triceps
#' @usage data(triceps)
#' @format A data frame with 892 observations on the following 3 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{\code{age}}{Age of respondents.}
#'   \item{\code{lntriceps}}{Log of the triceps skinfold thickness.}
#'   \item{\code{triceps}}{Triceps skinfold thickness.}
#' }
#' @source Cole T.J., Green P.J. (1992). Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood. Statistics in medicine, 11(10): 1305-1319.
#' @references Cole T.J., Green P.J. (1992). Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood. Statistics in medicine, 11(10): 1305-1319.
#' @keywords datasets
#' @examples
#' data(triceps)
#' ## maybe str(triceps) ...
"triceps"