Berkeley growth study data

A dataset containing the heights of 39 boys measured at ages 3 to 15 years with regular yearly intervals. This is a subset of the original Berkeley Growth Study data filtered to contain only regular time intervals suitable for time series modeling.

Usage

growth_data

Format

A data.frame with 507 observations and 3 variables:

height_cm

numeric height, in centimeters

age_yr

numeric age at which the boys were measured, in years (3, 4, 5, ..., 15)

id

factor indicating the different subjects (39 boys)

References

Tuddenham, R. D., and Snyder, M. M. (1954) "Physical growth of California boys and girls from birth to age 18", University of California Publications in Child Development, 1, 183-364.