Galton: Galton's dataset of parent and child heights
Description
In the 1880's, Francis Galton was developing ways to quantify the
heritability of traits. As part of this work, he collected data on
the heights of adult children and their parents.source
The data were transcribed by J.A. Hanley who has published them at
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/galton/Details
Entries were deleted for
those children whose heights were not recorded numerically by Galton,
who sometimes used entries such as ``tall'', ``short'', ``idiotic'',
``deformed'' and so on.References
"Transmuting" women into men: Galton's family data on human stature. (2004)
The American Statistician, 58(3):237-243.