galton {RSADBE} | R Documentation |
Sir Francis Galton used this data set for understanding the (linear) relationship between the height of parent and its effect on the height of child.
data(galton)
A data frame with 928 observations on the following 2 variables.
child
children's height
parent
parent's height
A scatter plot may be used for preliminary investigation of the kind of relationship between parent's height and their children. A simple linear regression model may also be built for quantifying the relationship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton
data(galton)
plot(galton)