Male and female births in London

The `arbuthnot_tbl` dataset contains historical baptism records collected by John Arbuthnot. It includes data on the number of boys and girls baptized each year from 1629 to 1710 in London. This dataset was historically significant in one of the earliest applications of statistical analysis to human populations. The dataset name has been suffixed with `_tbl` to indicate that it is a tibble, ensuring clarity within the `sampledatasets` package.

Usage

data(arbuthnot_tbl)

Format

A tibble with 82 observations and 3 variables:

year

Year of record (integer).

boys

Number of boys baptized (integer).

girls

Number of girls baptized (integer).

Source

Arbuthnot, J. (1710). *An argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant regularity observed in the births of both sexes*.