R Dataset / Package HistData / Galton
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On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the Galton data set which pertains to Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children. The Galton data set is found in the HistData R package. Try to load the Galton data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Galton"). This may load the data into a variable called Galton. If R says the Galton data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("HistData") and then attempt to reload the data with library("HistData") followed by data("Galton"). Perhaps strangley, if R gives you no output after entering a command, it means the command succeeded. If it succeeded you can see the data by typing Galton at the command-line which should display the entire dataset. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Galton R data set. The size of this file is about 20,032 bytes. Galton's data on the heights of parents and their childrenDescriptionGalton (1886) presented these data in a table, showing a cross-tabulation of 928 adult children born to 205 fathers and mothers, by their height and their mid-parent's height. He visually smoothed the bivariate frequency distribution and showed that the contours formed concentric and similar ellipses, thus setting the stage for correlation, regression and the bivariate normal distribution. Usagedata(Galton) FormatA data frame with 928 observations on the following 2 variables.
DetailsThe data are recorded in class intervals of width 1.0 in. He used non-integer values for the center of each class interval because of the strong bias toward integral inches. All of the heights of female children were multiplied by 1.08 before tablulation to compensate for sex differences. See Hanley (2004) for a reanalysis of Galton's raw data questioning whether this was appropriate. SourceGalton, F. (1886). Regression Towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15, 246-263 ReferencesFriendly, M. & Denis, D. (2005). The early origins and development of the scatterplot. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 41, 103-130. Galton, F. (1869). Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences. London: Macmillan. Hanley, J. A. (2004). "Transmuting" Women into Men: Galton's Family Data on Human Stature. The American Statistician, 58, 237-243. See: http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/galton/ for source materials. Stigler, S. M. (1986). The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Table 8.1 Wachsmuth, A. W., Wilkinson L., Dallal G. E. (2003). Galton's bend: A previously undiscovered nonlinearity in Galton's family stature regression data. The American Statistician, 57, 190-192. http://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/Publications/galton.pdf See Also
Examplesdata(Galton)###########################################################################
# sunflower plot with regression line and data ellipses and lowess smooth
###########################################################################with(Galton,
{
sunflowerplot(parent,child, xlim=c(62,74), ylim=c(62,74))
reg <- lm(child ~ parent)
abline(reg)
lines(lowess(parent, child), col="blue", lwd=2)
if(require(car)) {
dataEllipse(parent,child, xlim=c(62,74), ylim=c(62,74), plot.points=FALSE)
}
})
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