Children dataset.

This children data set contains the age and height measurements of 2500 children aged 5 to 19 years, splitted by sex (1292 females and 1208 males).

Usage

children

Format

children is a data frame with 2500 cases (rows) and 3 variables (columns).

sex

Individual's gender (female or male).

height

Height measured in centimeters.

age

Age in years.

Note

Other data sets of this type can be obtained from http://www.who.int/childgrowth/en/.

Examples

data(children)
head(children)
#>      sex height   age
#> 1   male 150.77 13.25
#> 2 female 170.59 14.17
#> 3 female 167.31 15.17
#> 4 female 165.72 16.58
#> 5 female 171.67 15.17
#> 6 female 143.74 12.67