anthropometry {lgrdata}

Child anthropometry

Description

Data include measurements of age, foot length, and height for 3898 children. These data are a small subset of many dozens of measurements on the same children, described in detail by Snyder (1977).

Usage

anthropometry

Format

A data frame with 3898 rows and 4 variables:

age

double Age in years

gender

integer "female" or "male"

foot_length

integer Total foot length (mm)

height

double Total height (cm)

Source

<http://mreed.umtri.umich.edu/mreed/downloads.html>.

Examples

data(anthropometry)
with(anthropometry, plot(age, foot_length, pch=16, cex=0.5, col=gender))