blood.hist: Blood Test Histogram Dataset

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Blood Test Histogram Dataset

Description

Histogram-valued blood test results for 14 gender-age groups (e.g., Female-20, Male-50). Each observation contains histograms for cholesterol, hemoglobin, and hematocrit, represented as multi-bin distributions.

Usage

data(blood.hist)

Format

A data frame with 14 observations and 3 histogram-valued variables:

• Cholesterol: Histogram of cholesterol levels (mg/dL).

• Hemoglobin: Histogram of hemoglobin levels (g/dL).

• Hematocrit: Histogram of hematocrit levels (%).

Metadata

Sample size (n)	14
Variables (p)	3
Subject area	Medical
Symbolic format	Histogram
Analytical tasks	Descriptive statistics, Clustering

Source

HistDAWass R package (BLOOD dataset).

References

Irpino, A. and Verde, R. (2015). Basic statistics for distributional symbolic variables: a new metric-based approach. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 9(2), 143–175.

Original data from the HistDAWass R package (BLOOD dataset).

Examples

data(blood.hist)

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