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ex0523

Was Tyrannosaurus Rex Warm-Blooded?


Description

Data frame with measurements of oxygen isotopic composition of vertebrate bone phosphate (per mil deviations from SMOW) in 12 bones of a singe Tyrannosaurus rex specimen

Usage

ex0523

Format

A data frame with 52 observations on the following 2 variables.

Oxygen

oxygen isotopic composition

Bonegrp

a factor with levels "Bone1", "Bone2", ..., "Bone12"

Source

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

References

Barrick, R.E. and Showers, W.J. (1994). Thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex: Evidence from Oxygen Isotopes, Science 265(5169): 222–224.

See Also

Examples

str(ex0523)

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

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