A dataset from the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS) conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to illustrate inference on demographic data. The dataset is a random sample of 20,000 participants drawn from 350,000 interviews from that year.
Format
A dataframe with 20,000 rows and 9 variables:
genhlthFactor with levels
excellent,very goodgood,fair,poorexeranyNumeric vector; 1 if the respondent exercised in the past month and 0 otherwise.
hlthplanNumeric; 1 if the respondent has some form of health coverage and 0 otherwise.
smoke100Numeric; 1 if the respondent has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their entire life and 0 otherwise.
heightNumeric; respondent's height in inches.
weightNumeric; respondent's weight in pounds.
wtdesireNumeric; respondent's desired weight in pounds.
ageNumeric; respondent's age in years.
genderFactor with two levels
mf