pima                 package:faraway                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
     Diseases conducted a study on 768 adult female Pima Indians living
     near Phoenix.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(pima)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The dataset contains the following variables

     '_p_r_e_g_n_a_n_t' Number of times pregnant

     '_g_l_u_c_o_s_e' Plasma glucose concentration at 2 hours in an oral
          glucose tolerance test

     '_d_i_a_s_t_o_l_i_c' Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)

     '_t_r_i_c_e_p_s' Triceps skin fold thickness (mm)

     '_i_n_s_u_l_i_n' 2-Hour serum insulin (mu U/ml)

     '_b_m_i' Body mass index (weight in kg/(height in metres squared))

     '_d_i_a_b_e_t_e_s' Diabetes pedigree function

     '_a_g_e' Age (years)

     '_t_e_s_t' test whether the patient shows signs of diabetes (coded 0
          if negative, 1 if positive)

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     The data may be obtained from  UCI Repository of machine learning
     databases at <URL:
     http://www.ics.uci.edu/\~mlearn/MLRepository.html>

