nhanes.samp {openintro} | R Documentation |
Random sample of 200 observations from the dataset NHANES.
Description
The dataset NHANES (US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study) is
part of the CRAN package NHANES
(author Randall Purim, rpruim@calvin.edu) and
contains 76 variables on 100,000 participants from surveys conducted between
2009 and 2012. The surveys are part of a series conducted by the US National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) since the 1960's. See the NHANES
package
documentation for more information about the surveys.
Usage
nhanes.samp
Format
A dataframe with 200 rows and 76 variables
Details
The dataset NHANES is a weighted sample from the full survey dataset constructed so that it may be treated as a random sample of the US population. The dataset nhanes.samp contains data from a random sample of size 200 from NHANES and all 76 variables. See the NHANES package for variable definitions and coding.
Source
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NHANES.
References
Pruim R (2015). NHANES: Data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study. R package version 2.1.0,