R: Total Body Composision Data

agefat {HSAUR} | R Documentation

## Total Body Composision Data

### Description

Age and body fat percentage of 25 normal adults.

### Usage

    data("agefat")

### Format

A data frame with 25 observations on the following 3 variables.

`age`

  the age of the subject.

`fat`

  the body fat percentage.

`sex`

  a factor with levels `female` and `male`.

### Details

The data come from a study investigating a new methods of measuring body composition (see Mazess et al, 1984), and give the body fat percentage (percent fat), age and sex for 25 normal adults aged between 23 and 61 years. The questions of interest are how are age and percent fat related, and is there any evidence that the relationship is different for males and females.

### Source

R. B. Mazess, W. W. Peppler and M. Gibbons (1984), Total body composition by dual-photon (153Gd) absorptiometry. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 40, 834–839.

### Examples

      data("agefat", package = "HSAUR")
      plot(fat ~ age, data = agefat)

[Package HSAUR version 1.3-9 Index]