girlgrowth {lmreg}

Growth data for girls

Description

Heights of some adolescent girls, aged 7 to 12, in the southern part of Kolkata, India around the year 2008.

Usage

data(girlgrowth)

Format

A data frame with 905 observations on the following 2 variables.

Age

Age of girls (in years)

Height

Height of girls (in cm)

Source

Dasgupta (2015), Physical Growth, Body Composition and Nutritional Status of Bengali School aged Children, Adolescents and Young adults of Calcutta, India: Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on Secular Trends, Report 158, Ney-van Hoogstraten Foundation, The Netherlands.

Examples

data(girlgrowth)
head(girlgrowth)