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usaf

17 anthropometric measures from the USAF showing a general factor


Description

The correlation matrix of 17 anthropometric measures from the United States Air Force survey of 2420 airmen. The data are taken from the Anthropometry package and included here as a demonstration of a hierarchical factor structure suitable for analysis by the omega or omegaSem.

Usage

data("USAF")

Format

The format is: num [1:17, 1:17] 1 0.1148 -0.0309 -0.028 -0.0908 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$ : chr [1:17] "age" "weight" "grip" "height" ... ..$ : chr [1:17] "age" "weight" "grip" "height" ...

Details

The original data were collected by the USAF and reported in Churchill et al, 1977. They are included as a data file of 2420 participants and 202 variables (the first being an id) in the Anthropometry package. The list of variable names may be found in Churchill et al, on pages 96-99.

The three (correlated) factor structure shows a clear height, bulk, and head size structure with an overall general factor (g) which may be interpreted as body size.

The variables included (and their variable numbers in Antropometry) are:

age V1
weight V2
grip strength V12
height (stature) V13
leg length V26
knee height V37
upper arm V42
thumb tip reach V47
in sleeve V49
chest breadth V52
hip breadth V55
waist circumference V71
thigh circumference V97
scye circumference V103
head circumference V141
bitragion coronal V145
head length V150
glabella to wall V181
external canthus to wall V183

Note that these numbers are equivalant to the numbers in Churchill et al. The numbers in Anthropometry are these + 1.

Source

Guillermo Vinue, Anthropometry: An R Package for Analysis of Anthropometric Data, Journal of Statistical Software, (2017), 77, 6.

References

Edmund Churchill, Thomas Churchill, Paul Kikta (1977) The AMRL anthropmetric data bank library, volumes I-V. (Technical report AMRL-TR-77-1) ) https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a047314.pdf

Guillermo Vinue, Anthropometry: An R Package for Analysis of Anthropometric Data, Journal of Statistical Software, (2017), 77, 6.

Examples

data(USAF)
psych::corPlot(USAF,xlas=3)
psych::omega(USAF[c(4:8,10:19),c(4:8,10:19)])   #just the size variables

psychTools

Tools to Accompany the 'psych' Package for Psychological Research

v2.1.12
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
William Revelle [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-9610>)
Initial release
2021-12-02

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