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Understand relationship between height of parents and child

Description

In an undergraduate program in statistics, students collected data on height of father, mother and age, sex and height of the children. Are heights of adults normally distributed? Can we predict the height of a child using the data on parents' heights? Does sex of a child matter? Does parity matter? Is the sex of the child related to parity? Study the distribution of time gap between successive births in a family.

Usage

data(FAMILY)

Format

A data frame with 288 observations on the following 17 variables.

Serial_Number

Serial Number

Family_Code

Family code

FHT

Father's height (in cm.)

MHT

Mother's height (in cm.)

Children

Number of children in the family

SEX_C1

Sex of child 1

AGE_C1

Age of child 1 (in yrs)

HT_C1

Height of child 1 (in cm.)

SEX_C2

Sex of child 2

AGE_C2

Age of child 2 (in yrs)

HT_C2

Height of child 2 (in cm.)

SEX_C3

Sex of child 3

AGE_C3

Age of child 3 (in yrs)

HT_C3

Height of child 3 (in cm.)

SEX_C4

Sex of child 4

AGE_C4

Age of child 4 (in yrs)

HT_C4

Height of child 4 (in cm.)

Details

Many statistical methods are appropriate here. The following are recommended more (i) Correlation and regression, (ii) Markov chain, (iii) goodness of fit tests - Fitting of Normal distribution to the data on height separately, (iv) Tests for proportions etc..

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html

Examples

data(FAMILY)