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.