father.son {UsingR} | R Documentation

## 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.

### 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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