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case0902

Why Do Some Mammals Have Large Brains for Their Size?

Description

The data are the average values of brain weight, body weight, gestation lengths (length of pregnancy) and litter size for 96 species of mammals.

Usage

case0902

Format

A data frame with 96 observations on the following 5 variables.

Species: species
Brain: average brain weight (in grams)
Body: average body weight (in kilograms)
Gestation: gestation period (in days)
Litter: average litter size

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

Examples

str(case0902)
pairs(log(Brain)~log(Body)+log(Litter)+Gestation, case0902)

Sleuth2

Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

v2.0-5

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Original by F.L. Ramsey and D.W. Schafer; modifications by Daniel W. Schafer, Jeannie Sifneos and Berwin A. Turlach; vignettes contributed by Nicholas Horton, Kate Aloisio and Ruobing Zhang, with corrections by Randall Pruim

Initial release

2019-01-24