Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Blood Preassure
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Blood Preassure

Description

Nishisato's widely used artificial data on 15 subjects answering 6 questions on their health.

Usage

data(blood)

Format

A frame 15x6 multiple-choice table of chosen option numbers.

V1

How would you rate your blood preassure? (1=low, 2=medium, 3=high)

V2

Do you get migraines? (1=rarely, 2=sometimes, 3=often)

V3

What is your age group? (1=20-34, 2=35-49, 3=50-65)

V4

How would you rate your daily level of anxiety? (1=low, 2=medium, 3=high)

V5

How would you rate your weight? (1=light, 2= medium, 3=heavy)

V6

What about your height? (1= short, 2=medium, 3=tall)

Details

The data were used for the first time in Nishisato (1999), and have been used in a number of his papers.

Source

Nishisato S (1999). Data types and information: beyond the current practice of data analysis. In Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium, pp. 40–51. Springer-Verlag.

References

Nishisato S (1999), cited above.

Nishisato S (2007). Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive Analysis. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples

data(blood)

Results