R/data-Exercise.R

In sur: Companion to "Statistics Using R: An Integrative Approach"

#' Exercise, Food Intake, and Weight Loss
#'
#' A fabricated dataset constructed by Darlington (1990) to demonstrate the importance of including all relevant variables in an analysis.  This dataset contains information about exercise, food intake, and weight loss for a fictional set of dieters.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 10 rows and 4 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{ID}{case number}
#'   \item{Exercise}{average daily number of hours exercised in that week}
#'   \item{FoodIntake}{average daily number of calories consumed in one particular week that is more than a baseline of 1,000 calories, as measured in increments of 100 calories}
#'   \item{WeightLoss}{number of pounds lost in that week}
#' }
#' @references "Regression and linear models." Darlington, R. B. (1990, ISBN:978-0070153721)
"Exercise"