bodyfat: Percentage of body fat data set

In unitquantreg: Parametric Quantile Regression Models for Bounded Data

Percentage of body fat data set

Description

The body fat percentage of individuals assisted in a public hospital in Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.

Usage

data(bodyfat, package = "unitquantreg")

Format

A data.frame with 298 observations and 9 columns:

• arms: Arms fat percentage.

• legs: Legs fat percentage.

• body: Body fat percentage.

• android: Android fat percentage.

• gynecoid: Ginecoid fat percentage.

• bmi: Body mass index - 24.71577.

• age: Age - 46.00.

• sex: Sex of individual. Female or male.

• ipaq: Factor variable indicating the sedentary, insufficiently active or active.

Author(s)

André F. B. Menezes

Josmar Mazucheli

Source

http://www.leg.ufpr.br/doku.php/publications:papercompanions:multquasibeta

References

Petterle, R. R., Bonat, W. H., Scarpin, C. T., Jonasson, T., and Borba, V. Z. C., (2020). Multivariate quasi-beta regression models for continuous bounded data. The International Journal of Biostatistics, 1–15, (preprint).

Mazucheli, J., Leiva, V., Alves, B., and Menezes A. F. B., (2021). A new quantile regression for modeling bounded data under a unit Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with applications in medicine and politics. Symmetry, 13(4) 1–21.

unitquantreg documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 5:40 p.m.