Body Fat Data — data-BodyFat • gRbase

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

data(BodyFat)

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 https://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)
#>   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