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 […]
Define “tall parents” and “short parents” according to your data. Then divide your sample into these two groups and report relevant statistics for the adult children and for parents in each group.
Galton’s article 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 […]
Calculate the predicted adult children’s height whose parents are “tall” after 1, 2, 3, …, Z generations? And similarly, what is your prediction for adult children’s height whose parents are “short” after 1, 2, 3, …, Z generations?
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 […]