Sakib Shahriar
15th March 2019
Instructions:
The application predicts a child height using the data from Galton dataset. The height is calculated depending on the parent's height and the childs gender.
Lets take a glance at the data set
family father mother midparentHeight
185 : 15 Min. :62.0 Min. :58.00 Min. :64.40
066 : 11 1st Qu.:68.0 1st Qu.:63.00 1st Qu.:68.14
120 : 11 Median :69.0 Median :64.00 Median :69.25
130 : 11 Mean :69.2 Mean :64.09 Mean :69.21
166 : 11 3rd Qu.:71.0 3rd Qu.:65.88 3rd Qu.:70.14
097 : 10 Max. :78.5 Max. :70.50 Max. :75.43
(Other):865
children childNum gender childHeight
Min. : 1.000 Min. : 1.000 female:453 Min. :56.00
1st Qu.: 4.000 1st Qu.: 2.000 male :481 1st Qu.:64.00
Median : 6.000 Median : 3.000 Median :66.50
Mean : 6.171 Mean : 3.586 Mean :66.75
3rd Qu.: 8.000 3rd Qu.: 5.000 3rd Qu.:69.70
Max. :15.000 Max. :15.000 Max. :79.00
The scatterplot shows the data for prediction