bears {Bolstad}R Documentation

bears

Description

Body measurements for 143 wild bears.

Format

A data frame with 143 observations on the following 12 variables.

Details

Wild bears were anesthetized, and their bodies were measured and weighed. One goal of the study was to make a table (or perhaps a set of tables) for hunters, so they could estimate the weight of a bear based on other measurements. This would be used because in the forest it is easier to measure the length of a bear, for example, than it is to weigh it.

Source

This data is in the example data set Bears.MTW distributed with Minitab

References

This data set was supplied by Gary Alt. Entertaining references are in Reader's Digest April, 1979, and Sports Afield September, 1981.

Examples


data(bears)
boxplot(Weight~Sex, data = bears)


[Package Bolstad version 0.2-41 Index]