father.son {UsingR}R Documentation

Galton'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 Galton to investigate regression.

Source

Read into R by the command

read.table("http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/juliab/141C/pearson.dat",sep=" ")[,-1],

as mentioned by Chuck Cleland on the r-help mailing list.

Examples

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)

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