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twins: Burt's twin data

Description

The given data are IQ scores from identical twins; one raised in a foster home, and the other raised by birth parents. This dataset contains the following columns:

  • C Social class, C1=high, C2=medium, C3=low, a factor.
  • IQb biological.
  • IQf foster.

Usage

data(twins)

Arguments

encoding

UTF-8

format

A data.frame object with ncol(SciencesPo::twins) variables and nrow(SciencesPo::twins) observations.

source

Burt, C. (1966). The genetic estimation of differences in intelligence: A study of monozygotic twins reared together and apart. Br. J. Psych., 57, 147-153.

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.