weight_age.hist: Weight by Age Group Histogram-Valued Dataset

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Weight by Age Group Histogram-Valued Dataset

Description

Histogram-valued weight distributions for 7 age groups (20s through 80s). Each observation represents an age decade with a 7-bin histogram of weight values (pounds).

Usage

data(weight_age.hist)

Format

A data frame with 7 observations and 1 histogram-valued variable:

• weight: Histogram-valued weight distribution (pounds).

Row names indicate age groups (20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s).

Metadata

Sample size (n)	7
Variables (p)	1
Subject area	Medical
Symbolic format	Histogram
Analytical tasks	Descriptive statistics

Source

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006), Table 3.10.

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). Symbolic Data Analysis: Conceptual Statistics and Data Mining. Wiley, Chichester. Table 3.10.

Examples

data(weight_age.hist)

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