nhanes.samp.adult: Selection of participants 21 years of age or older from...

In OpenIntroStat/openintro: Datasets and Supplemental Functions from 'OpenIntro' Textbooks and Labs

Selection of participants 21 years of age or older from nhanes.samp.

Description

The dataset NHANES (US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study) is part of the CRAN package NHANES (author Randall Purim, [e-mail]) and contains 76 variables on 100,000 participants from surveys conducted between 2009 and 2012. The surveys are part of a series conducted by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) since the 1960's. See the NHANES package documentation for more information about the surveys.

Usage

nhanes.samp.adult

Format

A dataframe with 135 rows and 76 variables

Details

The dataset NHANES is a weighted sample from the full survey dataset constructed so that it may be treated as a random sample of the US population. The dataset nhanes.samp.adult contains data from the 135 participants 21 years of age or older from the nhanes.samp dataset. See the NHANES package for variable definitions and coding.

Source

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NHANES.

References

Pruim R (2015). NHANES: Data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study. R package version 2.1.0,

OpenIntroStat/openintro documentation built on Jan. 2, 2025, 6:15 a.m.