Pearson: Karl Pearson's data on heights of brothers and sisters
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Karl Pearson's data on heights of brothers and sisters
Description
Data for Exercise 2.20
Usage
Pearson
Format
A data frame/tibble with 11 observations on three variables
- family
number indicating family of brother and sister pair
- brother
height of brother (in inches)
- sister
height of sister (in inches)
Source
Pearson, K. and Lee, A. (1902-3), On the Laws of Inheritance in Man,
Biometrika, 2, 357.
References
Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis.
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.
Examples
plot(brother ~ sister, data = Pearson, col = "lightblue")
cor(Pearson$brother, Pearson$sister)
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Karl Pearson's data on heights of brothers and sisters
Description
Data for Exercise 2.20
Usage
Pearson
Format
A data frame/tibble with 11 observations on three variables
- family
number indicating family of brother and sister pair
- brother
height of brother (in inches)
- sister
height of sister (in inches)
Source
Pearson, K. and Lee, A. (1902-3), On the Laws of Inheritance in Man, Biometrika, 2, 357.
References
Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.
Examples
plot(brother ~ sister, data = Pearson, col = "lightblue")
cor(Pearson$brother, Pearson$sister)
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