Bodyfat: Body Fat Composition

BodyfatR Documentation

Body Fat Composition

Description

Values from a study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that investigated a new method for measuring body composition

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 3 variables:

age

age in years

fat

body fat composition

sex

a factor with levels F for female and M for male

Source

Mazess, R. B., Peppler, W. W., and Gibbons, M. (1984) Total Body Composition by Dual-Photon (153 Gd) Absorptiometry. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 40, 4: 834-839.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples


boxplot(fat ~ sex, data = Bodyfat)


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