UsingR (version 2.0-7)

father.son: Pearson's data set on heights of fathers and their sons

Description

1078 measurements of a father's height and his son's height.

Usage

data(father.son)

Format

A data frame with 1078 observations on the following 2 variables.

fheight

Father's height in inches

sheight

Son's height in inches

Details

Data set used by Pearson to investigate regression. See data set galton for data set used by Galton.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(father.son)
## like cover of Freedman, Pisani, and Purves
plot(sheight ~ fheight, data=father.son,bty="l",pch=20)
abline(a=0,b=1,lty=2,lwd=2)
abline(lm(sheight ~ fheight, data=father.son),lty=1,lwd=2)
# }