R: growth in height of one 10-year-old boy

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## growth in height of one 10-year-old boy

### Description

Heights of a boy of age approximately 10 collected during one school year. The data were collected "over one school year, with gaps corresponding to the school vacations" (AFDA, p. 84)

### Format

A data.frame with two columns:

day

  Integers counting the day into data collection with gaps indicating days during which data were not collected.

height

  Height of the boy measured on the indicated day.

### Source

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2002), Applied Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed., Springer, New York.

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.

### Examples

    with(onechild, plot(day, height, type="b"))

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