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Chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen
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Description
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Quetelet's data on chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen.
Quetelet (1846) used this data as a demonstration of the normal
distribution of physical characteristics.

Usage
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::

    data(ChestSizes)

Format
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A data frame with 16 observations on the following 2 variables.

``chest``
    Chest size (in inches)

``count``
    Number of soldiers with this chest size

Source
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Velleman, P. F. and Hoaglin, D. C. (1981). *Applications, Basics, and
Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis*. Belmont. CA: Wadsworth.

Statlib:
`http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/MilitiamenChests.html <http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/MilitiamenChests.html>`_

References
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A. Quetelet, *Lettres a S.A.R. le Duc Regnant de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha,
sur la Theorie des Probabilites, Appliquee aux Sciences Morales et
Politiques*. Brussels: M. Hayes, 1846, p. 400.

Examples
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::

    data(ChestSizes)
    ## maybe str(ChestSizes) ; plot(ChestSizes) ...

    # frequency polygon
    plot(ChestSizes, type='b')
    #barplot
    barplot(ChestSizes[,2], ylab="Frequency", xlab="Chest size")

