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))