Two Parameters

Author

Anna Shao

We used the height, sex, and age information from the nhanes data set, which was taken from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 2009 to 2011 by the Centers for Disease Control. We made a model to determine the height for adult men in the US. However, our data set was gathered based on voluntary responses so it may not be representative of our population. Using a gaussian model with an intercept-only regression using height, we found that the average adult man in the US is 175.87 cm, with a standard deviation of 7.48 cm.

Characteristic

Beta

95% CI

1
(Intercept) 176 176, 176
1

CI = Credible Interval

 
# A tibble: 1 × 2
   .row  odds
  <int> <dbl>
1     1 0.301

The probability of the next man being taller than 180 cm is around 28%.