Oxboys: Heights of Boys in Oxford
Description
The Oxboys
data frame has 234 rows and 4 columns.Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- Subject
-
an ordered factor giving a unique identifier for each boy in
the experiment
- age
-
a numeric vector giving the standardized age (dimensionless)
- height
-
a numeric vector giving the height of the boy (cm)
- Occasion
-
an ordered factor - the result of converting
age
from a
continuous variable to a count so these slightly unbalanced
data can be analyzed as balanced.
Details
These data are described in Goldstein (1987) as data on the
height of a selection of boys from Oxford, England versus a
standardized age.