cholesterol.hist: Cholesterol by Gender and Age Histogram-Valued Dataset

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Cholesterol by Gender and Age Histogram-Valued Dataset

Description

Histogram-valued cholesterol distributions for 14 gender-age groups (7 female + 7 male age groups from 20s to 80+). Each observation has a 10-bin histogram of cholesterol levels.

Usage

data(cholesterol.hist)

Format

A data frame with 14 observations and 3 variables:

• gender: Gender (Female or Male).

• age: Age group (20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80+).

• cholesterol: Histogram-valued cholesterol distribution.

Metadata

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

Source

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006), Table 4.5.

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). Symbolic Data Analysis: Conceptual Statistics and Data Mining. Wiley, Chichester. Table 4.5.

Examples

data(cholesterol.hist)

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