Stata about the Econometrics Part 1: Analysis with Galton’s original data set Galton’s work on children and parents’ height was published in: Galton, F. (1886): “Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15: 246-63. In this first part of the project you are asked to reconstruct the original data from this […]
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What can you say about the relationship between the height of parents and their children? Are children of tall (short) parents as tall (short) as their parents?
Part 1: Analysis with Galton’s original data set Galton’s work on children and parents’ height was published in: Galton, F. (1886): “Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15: 246-63. In this first part of the project you are asked to reconstruct the original data from this original article and replicate […]
What can you say about the relationship between the height of parents and their children?
Part 1: Analysis with Galton’s original data set Galton’s work on children and parents’ height was published in: Galton, F. (1886): “Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15: 246-63. In this first part of the project you are asked to reconstruct the original data from this original article and replicate […]
Does the assumption of having 928 parents rather than 205 matter for this exercise?
Part 1: Analysis with Galton’s original data set Galton’s work on children and parents’ height was published in: Galton, F. (1886): “Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15: 246-63. In this first part of the project you are asked to reconstruct the original data from this original article and replicate […]
