DATA-BodyFat: Body Fat Data

In gRbase: A package for graphical modelling in R

Description

Estimates of the percentage of body fat determined by underwater weighing and various body circumference measurements for 252 men.

Usage

data(BodyFat)

Format

A data frame with 252 observations on the following 15 variables.

Density

Density determined from underwater weighing, a numeric vector

BodyFat

Percent body fat from Siri's (1956) equation, a numeric vector

Age

in years, a numeric vector

Weight

in lbs, a numeric vector

Height

in inches, a numeric vector

Neck

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Chest

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Abdomen

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Hip

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Thigh

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Knee

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Ankle

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Biceps

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Forearm

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Wrist

circumference in cm, a numeric vector

Source

For more information see http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/bodyfat

References

Bailey, Covert (1994). _Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit_, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, pp. 179-186.

Behnke, A.R. and Wilmore, J.H. (1974). _Evaluation and Regulation of Body Build and Composition_, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Siri, W.E. (1956), "Gross composition of the body", in _Advances in Biological and Medical Physics_, vol. IV, edited by J.H. Lawrence and C.A. Tobias, Academic Press, Inc., New York.

Katch, Frank and McArdle, William (1977). _Nutrition, Weight Control, and Exercise_, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.

Wilmore, Jack (1976). _Athletic Training and Physical Fitness: Physiological Principles of the Conditioning Process_, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston.

Examples

data(BodyFat)
head(BodyFat)

Example output

  Density BodyFat Age Weight Height Neck Chest Abdomen   Hip Thigh Knee Ankle
1  1.0708    12.3  23 154.25  67.75 36.2  93.1    85.2  94.5  59.0 37.3  21.9
2  1.0853     6.1  22 173.25  72.25 38.5  93.6    83.0  98.7  58.7 37.3  23.4
3  1.0414    25.3  22 154.00  66.25 34.0  95.8    87.9  99.2  59.6 38.9  24.0
4  1.0751    10.4  26 184.75  72.25 37.4 101.8    86.4 101.2  60.1 37.3  22.8
5  1.0340    28.7  24 184.25  71.25 34.4  97.3   100.0 101.9  63.2 42.2  24.0
6  1.0502    20.9  24 210.25  74.75 39.0 104.5    94.4 107.8  66.0 42.0  25.6
  Biceps Forearm Wrist
1   32.0    27.4  17.1
2   30.5    28.9  18.2
3   28.8    25.2  16.6
4   32.4    29.4  18.2
5   32.2    27.7  17.7
6   35.7    30.6  18.8

gRbase documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:51 p.m.