so many coefficients for obesity variable?


Call:
lm(formula = deathpop ~ GDP + popd + obesity + malep + elderlyp)

Residuals:
   Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max 
-1.934  0.000  0.000  0.000  1.934 

Coefficients:
                               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)                  -5.732e-01  1.456e+00  -0.394  0.70126   
GDP                           8.921e-06  1.724e-05   0.517  0.61513   
popd                         -1.429e-03  1.287e-03  -1.110  0.29066   
obesity0.10299999999999999    4.608e+00  1.976e+00   2.332  0.03971 * 
obesity0.108                  3.423e+00  2.041e+00   1.677  0.12169   
obesity0.109                  2.847e+00  1.973e+00   1.443  0.17684   
obesity0.127                  4.133e+00  1.984e+00   2.083  0.06140 . 
obesity0.13500000000000001    4.734e+00  1.981e+00   2.390  0.03586 * 
obesity0.155                  3.197e+00  1.977e+00   1.617  0.13408   
obesity0.156                  1.827e+00  1.955e+00   0.934  0.37017   
obesity0.17100000000000001    3.519e+00  1.977e+00   1.781  0.10258   
obesity0.186                  3.557e+00  1.969e+00   1.806  0.09828 . 
obesity0.19500000000000001    5.375e+00  2.287e+00   2.350  0.03849 * 
obesity0.19700000000000001    6.011e+00  1.755e+00   3.426  0.00566 **
obesity0.19900000000000001    6.358e+00  1.682e+00   3.780  0.00305 **
obesity0.20100000000000001    4.607e+00  2.070e+00   2.225  0.04793 * 
obesity0.20200000000000001    4.593e+00  1.986e+00   2.313  0.04111 * 
obesity0.20399999999999999    6.548e+00  2.058e+00   3.182  0.00873 **
obesity0.20499999999999999    2.316e+00  1.968e+00   1.177  0.26404   
obesity0.20599999999999999    6.388e+00  2.094e+00   3.051  0.01103 * 
obesity0.20799999999999999    5.589e+00  1.962e+00   2.849  0.01584 * 
obesity0.21199999999999999    5.011e+00  1.719e+00   2.914  0.01408 * 
obesity0.215                  5.179e+00  1.961e+00   2.640  0.02299 * 
obesity0.216                  5.808e+00  2.036e+00   2.853  0.01571 * 
obesity0.221                  6.461e+00  1.738e+00   3.719  0.00339 **
obesity0.222                  4.208e+00  2.086e+00   2.017  0.06877 . 
obesity0.223                  5.280e+00  1.702e+00   3.103  0.01006 * 
obesity0.22500000000000001    5.613e+00  1.943e+00   2.888  0.01476 * 
obesity0.22600000000000001    5.221e+00  2.631e+00   1.984  0.07272 . 
obesity0.22700000000000001    6.660e+00  1.976e+00   3.371  0.00625 **
obesity0.23100000000000001    4.020e+00  1.644e+00   2.445  0.03256 * 
obesity0.23599999999999999    3.309e+00  1.982e+00   1.670  0.12315   
obesity0.23799999999999999    6.396e+00  1.965e+00   3.256  0.00766 **
obesity0.24399999999999999    4.317e+00  1.968e+00   2.193  0.05067 . 
obesity0.246                  5.666e+00  1.975e+00   2.869  0.01527 * 
obesity0.247                  2.860e+00  1.972e+00   1.450  0.17489   
obesity0.249                  3.609e+00  1.959e+00   1.842  0.09252 . 
obesity0.25                   4.997e+00  1.961e+00   2.548  0.02709 * 
obesity0.253                  5.835e+00  2.300e+00   2.537  0.02764 * 
obesity0.25600000000000001    2.896e+00  1.964e+00   1.475  0.16832   
obesity0.25700000000000001    5.039e+00  1.967e+00   2.561  0.02646 * 
obesity0.25800000000000001    5.739e+00  1.972e+00   2.911  0.01417 * 
obesity0.26                   4.137e+00  1.961e+00   2.110  0.05862 . 
obesity0.26100000000000001    4.639e+00  1.714e+00   2.707  0.02039 * 
obesity0.26300000000000001    3.862e+00  1.980e+00   1.950  0.07710 . 
obesity0.26400000000000001    4.976e+00  1.717e+00   2.898  0.01449 * 
obesity0.26900000000000002    2.475e+00  1.966e+00   1.259  0.23394   
obesity0.27                   5.391e+00  1.985e+00   2.716  0.02007 * 
obesity0.27800000000000002    4.434e+00  1.678e+00   2.642  0.02292 * 
obesity0.27900000000000003    2.974e+00  1.980e+00   1.502  0.16130   
obesity0.28000000000000003    6.740e+00  1.960e+00   3.438  0.00554 **
obesity0.28299999999999997    5.446e+00  1.937e+00   2.812  0.01692 * 
obesity0.28899999999999998    5.892e+00  1.885e+00   3.125  0.00966 **
obesity0.28999999999999998    3.124e+00  2.110e+00   1.480  0.16692   
obesity0.29399999999999998    5.316e+00  2.046e+00   2.598  0.02479 * 
obesity0.29799999999999999    8.028e+00  3.014e+00   2.664  0.02205 * 
obesity0.30399999999999999    5.697e+00  1.976e+00   2.884  0.01487 * 
obesity0.308                  1.685e+00  2.056e+00   0.820  0.42982   
obesity0.317                  4.027e+00  2.058e+00   1.956  0.07629 . 
obesity0.32                   4.215e+00  2.013e+00   2.094  0.06025 . 
obesity0.32100000000000001    4.488e+00  1.938e+00   2.316  0.04087 * 
obesity0.32500000000000001    4.049e+00  1.980e+00   2.045  0.06551 . 
obesity0.33700000000000002    4.618e+00  2.063e+00   2.239  0.04679 * 
obesity0.35099999999999998    4.612e+00  2.146e+00   2.149  0.05473 . 
obesity0.35399999999999998    4.987e+00  2.014e+00   2.476  0.03077 * 
obesity0.35499999999999998    1.061e+00  1.969e+00   0.539  0.60079   
obesity0.36199999999999999    3.435e+00  3.270e+00   1.051  0.31599   
obesity0.379                  5.456e+00  1.997e+00   2.732  0.01951 * 
obesity2.1000000000000001E-2 -5.874e-01  1.980e+00  -0.297  0.77222   
obesity27.4%                  3.912e+00  1.958e+00   1.998  0.07103 . 
obesity3.5999999999999997E-2  4.831e+00  2.691e+00   1.795  0.10007   
obesity3.9E-2                -2.153e+00  9.219e+00  -0.234  0.81966   
obesity4.2999999999999997E-2  1.338e+00  2.787e+00   0.480  0.64061   
obesity4.4999999999999998E-2  2.248e+00  2.090e+00   1.076  0.30512   
obesity5.2999999999999999E-2  1.473e+00  1.732e+00   0.850  0.41326   
obesity5.3999999999999999E-2 -1.262e+00  2.009e+00  -0.628  0.54265   
obesity5.5E-2                 1.629e+00  1.980e+00   0.823  0.42793   
obesity5.6000000000000001E-2  1.619e+00  1.976e+00   0.820  0.42984   
obesity5.8000000000000003E-2  2.267e+00  1.743e+00   1.301  0.21999   
obesity6.0999999999999999E-2  1.288e+01  9.958e+00   1.293  0.22240   
obesity6.2E-2                -8.178e+00  8.496e+00  -0.963  0.35643   
obesity6.4000000000000001E-2  4.044e+00  2.060e+00   1.963  0.07539 . 
obesity6.9000000000000006E-2  2.687e+00  2.474e+00   1.086  0.30060   
obesity7.0999999999999994E-2  2.913e+00  1.997e+00   1.459  0.17259   
obesity7.1999999999999995E-2  2.594e-01  1.977e+00   0.131  0.89800   
obesity7.6999999999999999E-2  2.147e+00  1.976e+00   1.086  0.30050   
obesity7.8E-2                 3.326e+00  2.010e+00   1.655  0.12621   
obesity8.1000000000000003E-2  3.341e+00  1.980e+00   1.688  0.11954   
obesity8.3000000000000004E-2  2.413e+00  1.979e+00   1.219  0.24821   
obesity8.4000000000000005E-2  2.010e+00  1.974e+00   1.018  0.33046   
obesity8.5999999999999993E-2  3.062e+00  1.708e+00   1.793  0.10053   
obesity8.6999999999999994E-2  2.904e+00  1.975e+00   1.470  0.16962   
obesity8.7999999999999995E-2  3.501e+00  1.973e+00   1.775  0.10361   
obesity8.8999999999999996E-2  1.736e+00  2.532e+00   0.685  0.50727   
obesity9.5000000000000001E-2  3.553e+00  1.981e+00   1.794  0.10033   
obesity9.6000000000000002E-2  1.909e+00  1.973e+00   0.967  0.35410   
obesity9.9000000000000005E-2  3.453e+00  1.980e+00   1.744  0.10898   
malep                         5.456e-06  2.073e-05   0.263  0.79726   
elderlyp                      3.854e-08  9.296e-08   0.415  0.68642   
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.357 on 11 degrees of freedom
  (3 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.9467,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.4716 
F-statistic: 1.993 on 98 and 11 DF,  p-value: 0.1021

It's currently interpreting each value of obesity as a separate state. Change obesity from factor to numeric.

This must be a homework, there was another question just like it. The probability of that out in the wild is nearly zero.

Solution: your data has characters, so you need to remove those before converting to numeric. See the example above.

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Actually, the data look like it has scientific notation, so you don't want to remove the E. In R scientific notation is represented with a small e. In other words, 9.9e2 or 9.9e-2.

A simple solution for your data is to multiply by 1:

> 9.9000000000000005E-2*1
[1] 0.099
# or
df2 <- df %>% mutate(obesity = obesity*1)

Although, I would confirm with the person who put the data together if this was explicit, or if it was just the way that R read the data. Understanding your data is the most important thing before starting any analysis.

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