cdc: cdc

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cdc

Description

A dataset from the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS) conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to illustrate inference on demographic data. The dataset is a random sample of 20,000 participants drawn from 350,000 interviews from that year.

Usage

cdc

Format

A dataframe with 20,000 rows and 9 variables:

genhlth

Factor with levels excellent, very good good, fair, poor

exerany

Numeric vector; 1 if the respondent exercised in the past month and 0 otherwise.

hlthplan

Numeric; 1 if the respondent has some form of health coverage and 0 otherwise.

smoke100

Numeric; 1 if the respondent has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their entire life and 0 otherwise.

height

Numeric; respondent's height in inches.

weight

Numeric; respondent's weight in pounds.

wtdesire

Numeric; respondent's desired weight in pounds.

age

Numeric; respondent's age in years.

gender

Factor with two levels m f

Source

https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html

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