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Fischbein_wt

Weight data across time.


Description

A dataframe containing correlations of weight for 66 females measured 6 times at 6-month intervals.

Usage

data(Fischbein_wt)

Format

A 6*6 correlation matrix based on n = 66 female subjects.

Details

  • Weight1: Weight at time 1 (t0)

  • Weight2: Weight at time 2 (t0 + 6 months)

  • Weight3: Weight at time 3 (t0 + 12 months)

  • Weight4: Weight at time 4 (t0 + 18 months)

  • Weight5: Weight at time 5 (t0 + 24 months)

  • Weight6: Weight at time 6 (t0 + 32 months)

Created as follows:

Fischbein_wt = umx_read_lower(file = "", diag = TRUE, names = paste0("Weight", 1:6), ensurePD= TRUE)
1.000
0.985	1.000
0.968	0.981	1.000
0.957	0.970	0.985	1.000
0.932	0.940	0.964	0.975	1.000
0.890	0.897	0.927	0.949	0.973	1.000

References

Fischbein, S. (1977). Intra-pair similarity in physical growth of monozygotic and of dizygotic twins during puberty. Annals of Human Biology, 4. 417-430. doi: 10.1080/03014467700002401

See Also

Other datasets: GFF, docData, iqdat, umx, us_skinfold_data

Examples

data(Fischbein_wt) # load the data
str(Fischbein_wt) # data.frame
as.matrix(Fischbein_wt) # convert to matrix

umx

Structural Equation Modeling and Twin Modeling in R

v4.10.10
GPL-3
Authors
Timothy C. Bates [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1153-9007>), Gillespie Nathan [wit], Michael Zakharin [wit], Brenton Wiernik [ctb], Joshua N. Pritikin [ctb], Michael C. Neale [ctb], Hermine Maes [ctb]
Initial release
2021-11-30

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