morphosport {ade4}R Documentation

Athletes' Morphology

Description

This data set gives a morphological description of 153 athletes split in five different sports.

Usage

data(morphosport)

Format

morphosport is a list of 2 components.

    tab
    is a data frame with 153 athletes and 5 variables.
    sport
    is a factor with 6 items

Variables of morphosport$tab are the following ones.

    dbi
    : biacromial diameter (cm)
    tde
    : height (cm)
    tas
    : distance from the buttocks to the top of the head (cm)
    lms
    : length of the upper limbs (cm)
    poids
    : weigth (kg)

The levels of morphosport$sport are:

    athl
    : athletics
    foot
    : football
    hand
    : handball
    judo
    : judo
    nata
    : swimming
    voll
    : volleyball

Source

Mimouni , N. (1996)
Contribution de méthodes biométriques à l'analyse de la morphotypologie des sportifs.
Thèse de doctorat. Université Lyon 1.

Examples

data(morphosport)
plot(discrimin(dudi.pca(morphosport$tab, scan = FALSE), morphosport$sport, scan = FALSE))

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