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ex1605: Nature---Nurture

Description

Data are a subset from an observational, longitudinal, study on adopted children. Is child's intelligence related to intelligence of the biological mother and the intelligence of the adoptive mother?

Usage

ex1605

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 62 observations on the following 6 variables.

FMED

adoptive (foster) mother's years of education

TMIQ

biological mother's score on IQ test

Age2IQ

IQ of child at age 2

Age4IQ

IQ of child at age 4

Age8IQ

IQ of child at age 8

Age13IQ

IQ of child at age 13

References

Skodak, M. and Skeels, H.M. (1949). A Final Follow-up Study of One Hundred Adopted Children, Journal of Genetic Psychology 75: 85--125.

See Also

ex1319

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
str(ex1605)
# }

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