data-BodyFat function

Body Fat Data

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

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 https://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/bodyfat

data(BodyFat)

data(BodyFat)

Examples

data(BodyFat)
head(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.