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 objects.

tab

  is a data frame with 153 athletes and 5 variables.

sport

  is a factor with 6 items

### Details

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).

### 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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