GaltonMale: Height of Children

GaltonMaleR Documentation

Height of Children

Description

A data set containing data on the height of 465 male children and the height of both their mother and father.

Usage

data(GaltonMale)

Details

A data frame with 465 observations on the following variables.

  • father (height of father in inches)

  • mother (height of mother in inches)

  • height (height of child in inches)

Source

Hanley, J.A. (2004). “Transmuting" women into men: Galton's family data on human stature. The American Statistician, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 237-243. Accessed on May 21, 2025.

References

https://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/galton/

Examples

data(GaltonMale)


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