SiChildren: Age, height and weight in a sample of Italian children

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Age, height and weight in a sample of Italian children

Description

Age, height and weight in a sample of 1424 Italian children born in Sicily in the eighties

Usage

data("SiChildren")

Format

A data frame with 1424 observations on the following 3 variables.

age

age in years

height

child height (in centimeter)

weight

child weight (in kilo)

Details

Data refer on the usual antropometric measures of Italian boys born in Sicily in the first years of 80s. Data have been kindly provided by prof M. Chiodi

Source

Gattuccio F., and Pirronello S., and Chiodi M (1988) Possibilita' di identificazione di tipologie evolutive del periodo puberale: proposta di una metodica pr finalita' predittive, Rivista di pediatria preventiva e sociale nipiologia, 189-199

Examples

data(SiChildren)
## see the package vignette for an example using such dataset

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