Heights


Karl Pearson organized the collection
of data on over 1100 families in England in the period 1893 to 1898. This
particular data set gives the Heights in inches of mothers and their
daughters, with up to two daughters per mother.  All daughters are at least
age 18, and all mothers are younger than 65.  Data were given in the source
as a frequency table to the nearest inch.
Rounding error has been added to remove discreteness from graph.


datasets

This package is a companion to the textbook S. Weisberg (2014),
"Applied Linear Regression," 4rd edition, Wiley. It includes all the
data sets discussed in the book and one function to access the textbook's
website.
This package depends on the car package.  Many data files in this package
are included in the alr3 package as well, so only one of them should be
loaded.

Sanford Weisberg

alr4

Data to accompany Applied Linear Regression 4rd edition

Heights function

This data frame contains the following columns:
 <dl>
    <dt>mheight</dt><dd>
 Mother's ht, in.
    </dd> <dt>dheight</dt><dd>
 Daughter's ht, in.
    </dd> </dl> 

Format

K. Pearson and  A. Lee (1903), On the laws of inheritance
in man, <em>Biometrika</em>, 2, 357--463, Table 31.

Heights: Pearson-Lee data

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