bp.obese {ISwR}R Documentation

Obesity and blood pressure

Description

The bp.obese data frame has 102 rows and 3 columns. It contains data from a random sample of Mexican-American adults in a small California town.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

sex
a numeric vector code. 0: male, 1: female.
obese
a numeric vector. Ratio of actual weight to ideal weight from New York Metropolitan Life Tables.
bp
a numeric vector. Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg).

Source

B.W. Brown & M. Hollander (1977), Statistics. A Biomedical Introduction, Wiley.

Examples

data(bp.obese)
plot(bp~obese,pch = ifelse(sex==1, "F", "M"), data = bp.obese)

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