howell: Howell height, age and weight data

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Howell height, age and weight data

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

data(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))

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