bone.data: Dataset concerning the actual measurements of bone density in...

In QBAsyDist: Asymmetric Distributions and Quantile Estimation

Description

A detailed description of this dataset is available in https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/datasets/bone.data and discussed in Friedman et al. (2001) and Takeuchi et al. (2006).

Usage

bone.data

Format

A data frame with 485 rows and 4 variables:

idnum

ID of adolescent.

age

Age of adolescent.

gender

Gender of adolescent.

spnbmd

Relative Change in the actual measurements of bone density (BMD).

References

Friedman, J., Hastie, T. and Tibshirani, R. (2001). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer series in statistics New York, USA

Takeuchi, I., Le, Q. V., Sears, T. D., and Smola, A. J. (2006). Nonparametric quantile estimation, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol 7, pp. 1231–1264.

Examples

data(bone.data)
y=bone.data$spnbmd
x=bone.data$age
plot(x,y)

Example output

QBAsyDist documentation built on Sept. 4, 2019, 1:05 a.m.