nhanes.samp: Random sample of 200 observations from the dataset NHANES.

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Random sample of 200 observations from the dataset NHANES.

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

Format

A dataframe with 200 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 contains data from a random sample of size 200 from NHANES and all 76 variables. 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,

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