GaltonFamilies dataset

Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children, by child

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  • Maintainer: Michael Friendly
  • License: GPL
  • Last published: 2025-11-30

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 934
  • Number of columns: 8
  • Class: data.frame

Column names and types

  • family:factor
  • father:numeric
  • mother:numeric
  • midparentHeight:numeric
  • children:integer
  • childNum:integer
  • gender:factor
  • childHeight:numeric