pima {faraway}R Documentation

Diabetes survey on Pima Indians

Description

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases conducted a study on 768 adult female Pima Indians living near Phoenix.

Usage

data(pima)

Format

The dataset contains the following variables

pregnant
Number of times pregnant
glucose
Plasma glucose concentration at 2 hours in an oral glucose tolerance test
diastolic
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
triceps
Triceps skin fold thickness (mm)
insulin
2-Hour serum insulin (mu U/ml)
bmi
Body mass index (weight in kg/(height in metres squared))
diabetes
Diabetes pedigree function
age
Age (years)
test
test whether the patient shows signs of diabetes (coded 0 if negative, 1 if positive)

Source

The data may be obtained from UCI Repository of machine learning databases at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html


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