fat: Percentage of Body Fat and Body Measurements
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Percentage of Body Fat and Body Measurements

Description

Age, weight, height, and 10 body circumference measurements are recorded for 252 men. Each man's percentage of body fat was accurately estimated by an underwater weighing technique.

Format

A data frame with 252 observations on the following 18 variables.

brozek: Percent body fat using Brozek's equation, 457/Density - 414.2
siri: Percent body fat using Siri's equation, 495/Density - 450
density: Density (gm/$cm^3$)
age: Age (yrs)
weight: Weight (lbs)
height: Height (inches)
adipos: Adiposity index = Weight/Height$^2$ (kg/$m^2$)
free: Fat Free Weight = (1 - fraction of body fat) * Weight, using Brozek's formula (lbs)
neck: Neck circumference (cm)
chest: Chest circumference (cm)
abdom: Abdomen circumference (cm) at the umbilicus and level with the iliac crest
hip: Hip circumference (cm)
thigh: Thigh circumference (cm)
knee: Knee circumference (cm)
ankle: Ankle circumference (cm)
biceps: Extended biceps circumference (cm)
forearm: Forearm circumference (cm)
wrist: Wrist circumference (cm) distal to the styloid processes