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Name:

Weights of College Student Backpacks

Description:

Backpack weights for a sample of college students

Variables:

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 10 variables.

BackpackWeight	Backpack weight (in pounds)
BodyWeight	Body weight (in pounds)
Ratio	BackpackWeight/BodyWeight
BackProblems	0=no or 1=yes
Major	Code for academic major
Year	Year in school
Sex	a factor with levels Female Male
Status	Graduate or undergraduate? G or U
Units	Number of credits taken that quarter

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Rows:

100

Columns:

Files:

Weights of College Student Backpacks_1098_31.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Mintz J., Mintz J., Moore K., and Schuh K., "Oh, My Aching Back! A Statistical Analysis of Backpack Weights," Stats: The Magazine for Students of Statistics, vol. 32, 2002, pp. 1719.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Weights_of_College_Student_Backpacks_1098_31.csv")