USgirl {Brq}

Weight and age for a sample of 4011 US girl data

Description

This data set comprises weight and age for a sample of 4011 US girls reported in Cole (1988) and used in Keming et al. (2003).

Usage

data(USgirl)

Format

A data frame with 4011 observations on the following 2 variables.

Age

Age (years)

Weight

Weight (Kg)

References

[1] Cole, T. J. (1988) Fitting smoothed centile curves to reference data (with discussion). J R. Statist. Soc. A, 151, 385-418.

[2] Yu, K., Lu, Z., and Stander, J. (2003). Quantile regression: applications and current research areas. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician), 52(3), 331-350.