howell: Howell height, age and weight data

In lgrdata: Example Datasets for a Learning Guide to R

Description

These data were also used by McElreath (2016, "Statistical Rethinking", CRC Press). Data include measurements of height, age and weight on Khosan people.

Usage

howell

Format

A data frame with 783 rows and 4 variables:

sex

factor male or female

age

double Age (years)

weight

double Body weight (kg)

height

double Total height (cm)

Source

<https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/17996>, subsetted for non-missing data and one outlier removed.

Examples

data(howell)
with(howell, plot(age, height, pch=19, col=sex))

Example output

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