This data set was created from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009-2010 Arthritis Questionnaire.
data(arq)
We have two outcomes of interest. Chronic neck pain: Yes
arq010a=1
vs.\ No arq010a=0
. Chronic lower-back/buttock
pain: Yes arq010de=1
vs.\ No arq010de=0
. seqn
is
a unique survey respondent identifier. wtint2yr
is the survey
sampling weight. riagendr
is gender: 1 for males, 2 for
females. ridageyr
is age in years. There are several
anthropometric measurements: bmxwt
, weight in kg; bmxht
,
height in cm; bmxbmi
, body mass index in kg/\(m^2\); and
bmxwaist
, waist circumference in cm. The data was subsetted
to ensure non-missing values of these variables.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009-2010 Arthritis Questionnaire. https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/2009-2010/ARQ_F.htm