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A synthetic replacement for the former diabetes dataset from the mlbench package. It has the same structure and number of observations but does not represent real people. Useful for demonstrating regression approaches for binary outcomes.

Usage

data_SynthDiabetes

Format

A data frame with 768 observations and 9 variables:

pregnant

Number of times pregnant

glucose

Plasma glucose concentration (glucose tolerance test)

pressure

Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)

triceps

Triceps skin fold thickness (mm)

insulin

2-Hour serum insulin (mu U/ml)

mass

Body mass index (BMI)

pedigree

Diabetes pedigree function

age

Age in years

diabetes

Factor indicating diabetes status (pos/neg)

Source

mlbench::SynthDiabetes2, available in mlbench version 2.1-11 or later.