Policie {mffSM}R Documentation

Data on police applicants

Description

Simulated data on 50 police (“policie” in Czech) applicants.

Data are used for some illustrations in the book Regrese by Karel Zvára (Zvára, 2008). Data have been simulated such that the main characteristics are similar to the characteristics of a similar dataset used in Weisberg (2005).

Usage

data(Policie)

Format

A data.frame with 50 rows and the following variables.

react

reaction time [s] to a certain stimulus

height

height [cm] of an applicant

weight

weight [kg] of an applicant

fat

percentage of the applicant's body fat

pulse

resting pulse of an applicant

diast

diastolic blood pressure [mm Hg] of an applicant

Source

http://msekce.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~zvara/regrese/kniha/R.ZIP

References

Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, Third Edition. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-66379-4.

Zvára, K. (2008). Regrese. Praha: Matfyzpress. ISBN 978-80-7378-041-8.

Examples

data(Policie)
summary(Policie)

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