Galton

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.

datasets

Data sets and utilities from Project MOSAIC
        (mosaic-web.org) used to teach mathematics, statistics,
        computation and modeling.  Funded by the NSF, Project MOSAIC is
        a community of educators working to tie together aspects of
        quantitative work that students in science, technology,
        engineering and mathematics will need in their professional
        lives, but which are usually taught in isolation, if at all.

Randall Pruim

mosaic

Project MOSAIC (mosaic-web.org) statistics and mathematics
        teaching utilities

Galton function

A data frame with 898 observations on the following variables.
  <ul><li><code>family</code></li></ul> {a factor with levels for each family}
    <item><code>father</code></item> {the father's height (in inches)}
    <item><code>mother</code></item> {the mother's height (in inches)}
    <item><code>sex</code></item> {the child's sex: <code>F</code> or <code>M</code>}
    <item><code>height</code></item> {the child's height as an adult (in inches)}
    <item><code>nkids</code></item> {the number of adult children in the family, or, at least,
the number whose heights Galton recorded.}

format

The data were transcribed by J.A. Hanley who has
  published them at
  <url>http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/galton/</url>

Galton: Galton's dataset of parent and child heights

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