West Point Indoor Obstacle Course Test Data

confounding variables
multiple regression
interactions
Dataset for the Indoor Obstacle Course, an obstacle course that all Cadets at West Point must complete prior to graduation.
Author

Nicholas Clark

Published

July 2, 2024

Motivation

Data set for the Indoor Obstacle Course, an obstacle course that all Cadets at West Point must complete prior to graduation. This dataset can be used to build linear regression and explore the effects of confounding variables looking at the impact of height on IOCT time. Height, as students will discover, is highly confounded with gender, masking the effect.

Data

Each row is a unique cadet who completed the IOCT in an unknown year. The columns are as follows:

ioct_west_point.csv
Variable Description
sex M (male) or F (female)
height height in inches
weight weight in inches
IOCT_Time IOCT time in seconds

Questions

  1. Explore the relationships between height and weight with IOCT time.

  2. Explore differences between interactions and confounding variables, e.g., height is confounded with gender, masking the effect.

References

These data were hand collected.