cdc.samp

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Sample of 60 individuals from the cdc dataset used OpenIntro, lab 2.

Description

A subset of demographic data from the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System

Usage

data("cdc.samp")

Format

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 9 variables.

genhlth

a factor with levels excellent very good good fair poor

exerany

Numeric vector; 1 if the respondent exercised in the past month and 0 otherwise.

hlthplan

Numeric vector; 1 if the respondent has some form of health coverage and 0 otherwise.

smoke100

Numeric; 1 if the respondent has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their entire life and 0 otherwise.

height

Numeric; respondent's height in inches.

weight

Numeric; respondent's weight in pounds.

wtdesire

Numeric; respondent's desired weight in pounds.

age

Numeric; A numerical vector, respondent's age in years.

gender

a factor with two levels m f

Source

Data are a random sample of size 500 from the larger dataset available from OpenIntro at https://www.openintro.org/stat/data/?data=cdc. The data on the OpenIntro site are a subset of data gathered by the US Centers for Disease Control (US CDC) in the year 2000 Behavior Risk Factors Surveillance System

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