R Dataset / Package HistData / ChestSizes
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dataset-58041.csv | 119 bytes |
Chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen
Description
Quetelet's data on chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen. Quetelet (1846) used this data as a demonstration of the normal distribution of physical characteristics.
Usage
data(ChestSizes)
Format
A data frame with 16 observations on the following 2 variables.
chest
Chest size (in inches)
count
Number of soldiers with this chest size
Source
Velleman, P. F. and Hoaglin, D. C. (1981).
Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis. Belmont. CA: Wadsworth.
Retrieved from Statlib: https://www.stat.cmu.edu/StatDat/Datafiles/MilitiamenChests.html
References
A. Quetelet, Lettres a S.A.R. le Duc Regnant de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha, sur la Theorie des Probabilites, Appliquee aux Sciences Morales et Politiques. Brussels: M. Hayes, 1846, p. 400.
Examples
data(ChestSizes) ## maybe str(ChestSizes) ; plot(ChestSizes) ...# frequency polygon plot(ChestSizes, type='b') #barplot barplot(ChestSizes[,2], ylab="Frequency", xlab="Chest size")
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