HistData (version 0.8-6)

ChestSizes: Chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen

Description

Quetelet's data on chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen. Quetelet (1846) used this data as a demonstration of the normal distribution of physical characteristics.

Usage

data(ChestSizes)

Format

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 2 variables.

chest

Chest size (in inches)

count

Number of soldiers with this chest size

References

A. Quetelet, Lettres a S.A.R. le Duc Regnant de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha, sur la Theorie des Probabilites, Appliquee aux Sciences Morales et Politiques. Brussels: M. Hayes, 1846, p. 400.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(ChestSizes)
## maybe str(ChestSizes) ; plot(ChestSizes) ...

# frequency polygon
plot(ChestSizes, type='b')
#barplot
barplot(ChestSizes[,2], ylab="Frequency", xlab="Chest size")
# }