GrowthChart: Age and Height of White Males

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Description

This data set contains age and height of US-born white males age two through twenty. Note that age is measured in months and expressed in years, and height is measured in centimeters.

Usage

data(GrowthChart)

Format

A data frame with 533 observations on the following 3 variables.

sex

a numeric vector. Male = 1

height

a numeric vector. Height in cm

age

a numeric vector. Age in years

Source

The data consist of repeated cross sectional measurements of height and age from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Survey collected by the US National Center for Health Statistics.

Examples

data(GrowthChart)
attach(GrowthChart)
plot(age,height,pch=21,bg='gray',cex=.5,
xlab="Age (years)",ylab="Height (cms)",col='gray')
detach(GrowthChart)

Example output

Loading required package: quantreg
Loading required package: SparseM

Attaching package: 'SparseM'

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    backsolve

Loading required package: splines

Rearrangement documentation built on May 1, 2019, 11:29 p.m.