National Health and Nutrition Health Survey 2013-2014 (NHANES) Age Prediction Subset

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), collects extensive health and nutritional information from a diverse U.S. population. Though expansive, the dataset is often too broad for specific analytical purposes. In this sub-dataset, we narrow our focus to predicting respondents' age by extracting a subset of features from the larger NHANES dataset. These selected features include physiological measurements, lifestyle choices, and biochemical markers, which were hypothesized to have strong correlations with age. The original full dataset can be found at: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/search/DataPage.aspx?Component=Questionnaire&CycleBeginYear=2013 Preprocessing description: For this subset respondents 65 years old and older were labeled as “senior” and all individuals under 65 years old as “non-senior.”