heights: Pearson-Lee data

In alr3: Data to Accompany Applied Linear Regression 3rd Edition

Description

Karl Pearson organized the collection of data on over 1100 families in England in the period 1893 to 1898. This particular data set gives the heights in inches of mothers and their daughters, with up to two daughters per mother. All daughters are at least age 18, and all mothers are younger than 65. Data were given in the source as a frequency table to the nearest inch. Rounding error has been added to remove discreteness from graph.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Mheight

Mother's ht, in.

Dheight

Daughter's ht, in.

Source

K. Pearson and A. Lee (1903), On the laws of inheritance in man, Biometrika, 2, 357–463, Table 31.

References

Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Section 1.1.

Examples

head(heights)

Example output

Loading required package: car
  Mheight Dheight
1    59.7    55.1
2    58.2    56.5
3    60.6    56.0
4    60.7    56.8
5    61.8    56.0
6    55.5    57.9

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