R/data-nhanes.samp.adult.R

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#' Selection of participants 21 years of age or older from nhanes.samp.
#'
#' The dataset NHANES (US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study) is
#' part of the CRAN package `NHANES` (author Randall Purim, rpruim@calvin.edu)
#' 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.
#'
#' 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.
#'
#' @name nhanes.samp.adult
#' @docType data
#' @format A dataframe with 135 rows and 76 variables
#' @references Pruim R (2015). _NHANES: Data from the US National Health and
#' Nutrition Examination Study_. R package version 2.1.0,
#' @source \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NHANES}.
#'
"nhanes.samp.adult"