We'll look at the Galton data frame from the mosaicData package: data(Galton) View(Galton) help(Galton) Here's a scatterplot of the heights of the mothers and the heights of their children: ***(YOU MUST CREATE THE SCATTERPLOT FROM INFO GIVEN) We would like to use the data to predict the height of a child from the height of her mother. As described in class and in the Course Notes, use the predict() function to predict the height of a child (the time of Galtons' study) if the child's mother was known to be 64 inches tall. Record your answer (without units) as a decimal number, correct to at least two decimal places.

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We'll look at the Galton data frame from the mosaicData package:

data(Galton)
View(Galton)
help(Galton)

Here's a scatterplot of the heights of the mothers and the heights of their children:

***(YOU MUST CREATE THE SCATTERPLOT FROM INFO GIVEN)

We would like to use the data to predict the height of a child from the height of her mother. As described in class and in the Course Notes, use the predict() function to predict the height of a child (the time of Galtons' study) if the child's mother was known to be 64 inches tall. Record your answer (without units) as a decimal number, correct to at least two decimal places.

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R-code for scatterplot

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library(mosaicData)
#loading data
data(Galton)
x=as.data.frame(cbind(Galton$height,Galton$mother))

# scatterplot
plot(x[,1],x[,2],xlab = "Height of child",ylab = "Height of mother")

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