
insurance
charges against body mass index, colored by smoking status.
The database insurance
from package hecstatmod
contains information about medical charges billed to 1338 Americans during 2003. Figure 1 shows a plot obtained from an exploratory data analysis, showing the potential interaction between smoking and body mass index.
insurance
charges against body mass index, colored by smoking status.
obesity
that indicates if a person bmi
is equal or above 30.1obesity
, smoker
, bmi
and age
.obesity
and smoker
.bmi
is the same for obese or not.According to the World Health Organization, people with a \(\texttt{bmi} \ge 25\) are overweight and those with \(\texttt{bmi} \ge 30\) are obese. However, BMI is perceived as being a flawed indicator of health: see this New York Times paper for example.↩︎