#' @title Spinal Bone Mineral Density (Extended) Data
#'
#' @description These are measures on spinal areal bone mineral density. The data
#' are taken from the "large" bone density dataset on the source website (see source).
#'
#'
#' @format A data frame with 1003 rows and 5 variables
#' \describe{
#' \item{idnum}{Identifies the subject, and hence the repeat measurements}
#' \item{ethnic}{The "ethnicity/race" of the subject. A factor with levels
#' "Asian", "Black", "Hispanic", and "White".}
#' \item{age}{The age in years of the subject at the time the measurement \code{spnbmd} was taken.}
#' \item{sex}{Sex of the subject. A factor with levels "female" and "male".}
#' \item{spnbmd}{The spinal areal bone mineral density (BMD) measurement
#' in grams per square centimetre.}
#' }
#'
#' The row order of the values follow their order of appearence in the source webpage.
#'
#' @details
#'
#' The purpose of the study was to examine ethnic and sex differences in bone mineral acquisition over
#' time for young (aged 9-25 years) healthy Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White males and females.
#' The study recorded areal bone mineral density (BMD) in grams per square centimetre in the lumbar spine.
#'
#' The sample was a convenience sample of 423 healthy young people of various "ethnicities."
#'
#' On the subjects (Bachrach et al, 1999):
#'
#' "A convenience sample of healthy youth was recruited from the community
#' through advertisements and personal contact. Individuals
#' with a history of medical conditions or use of medications affecting
#' bone mineral were excluded. Subjects were encouraged to return annually
#' for a total of four visits or until they had reached age 26 yr.
#' Recruitment occurred between May 1992 and February 1996; data collection
#' ended in February 1997. The cohort at entry included 103 non-Hispanic whites,
#' 103 Hispanics, 103 Asians, and 114 non-Hispanic blacks, aged 8.8 –25.9 yr;
#' 230 females and 193 males were enrolled as previously reported (22).
#' For simplicity, ethnicity and race will be used as interchangeable terms,
#' and the groups will be referred to as white, Hispanic, Asian, and black.
#' A total of 280 subjects completed 2 visits; 189 were studied 3 times, and
#' 113 were evaluated 4 times. Subjects who completed fewer than 4 visits included
#' those who refused, relocated, or reached age 26 yr during the study period;
#' in addition, subjects who were recruited late in the study did not complete
#' all visits because funding had terminated."
#'
#'
#'
#'
#' See references, particularly Bachrach et al (1999), for more details.
#'
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @name bone_ext
#'
#' @seealso \code{\link{bone}}
#'
#' @keywords bone mineral density medical ElemStatLearn
#'
#' @author
#' R.W. Oldford
#'
#'
#' @references
#'
#' Laura K. Bachrach, Trevor Hastie, May-Choo Wang, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, and Robert Marcus (1999)
#' "Bone Mineral Acquisition in Healthy Asian, Hispanic, Black and
#' Caucasian Youth. A Longitudinal Study", J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 84, 4702-12.
#'
#' Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman (2009)
#' "The Elements of Statistical Learning", 2nd Edition, Springer New York
#' <doi:10.1007/978-0-387-84858-7>
#'
#' @source
#' Trevor Hastie's "Elements of Statistical Learning" page at Stanford.
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