morphosport               package:ade4               R Documentation

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

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

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

     data(morphosport)

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

     'morphosport' is a list of 2 objects.

     _t_a_b is a data frame with 153 athletes and 5 variables.

     _s_p_o_r_t is a factor with 6 items

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     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, nata (swimming), voll
     (volleyball).

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

     Mimouni , N. (1996)  _Contribution de mthodes biomtriques 
     l'analyse de la morphotypologie des sportifs_.  Thse de doctorat.
     Universit Lyon 1.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

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

