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howell

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

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))

lgrdata

Example Datasets for a Learning Guide to R

v0.1.1

CC0

Authors

Remko Duursma [aut, cre], Jeff Powell [ctb]

Initial release