Fazekas {mffSM}R Documentation

Data on bone measurements of fetuses

Description

Data on bone measurements on fetuses obtained for the use in a forensic medicine.

Orignally, data are provided by Fazekas and Kosa (1978). In this dataset, only data on fetuses being at least four lunar months old are retained. Data are used for some illustrations in the book Regrese by Karel Zvára (Zvára, 2008).

Usage

data(Fazekas)

Format

A data.frame with 133 rows and the following variables.

lunar

age of the fetus [lunar month]

flunar

factor corresponding to the variable lunar

gender

gender of the fetus, 0 = female, 1 = male

fgender

factor with levels F and M corresponding to the variable gender

length

length [cm] of the fetus

weight

weight [g] of the fetus

humerus.L

length [mm] of humerus (pažní kost in Czech)

humerus.W

width [mm] of humerus (pažní kost in Czech)

radius

length [mm] of radius (vřetenní kost in Czech)

ulna

length [mm] of ulna (loketní kost in Czech)

femur.L

length [mm] of femur (stehenní kost in Czech)

femur.W

width [mm] of femur (stehenní kost in Czech)

tibia

length [mm] of tibia (holenní kost in Czech)

fibula

length [mm] of fibula (lýtková kost in Czech)

Source

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

References

Fazekas, I. G. and Kosa, F. (1978). Forensic Fetal Osteology. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado.

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

Examples

data(Fazekas)
summary(Fazekas)

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