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Forearm lengths

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Keywords:
length
Categories:
biology;
one- and two-sample data
Description:
The data are the lengths of forearms (in inches) from 140 adult males.

There are 140 observation on one variable.

Variables:
Length The forearm length (in inches)
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
Hand et al., dataset 139.
Notes:
A normal distribution fits the data well.
References:
The original source is Pearson, K. and Lee, A. (1903). On the laws of inheritance in man. I. Inheritance of physical characteristics. Biometrika, 2, 357--462.