urinationD {GLMsData}

Urination time

Description

The urination times of animals

Usage

data(urinationD)

Format

A data frame containing 35 observations with the following 5 variables.

Animal

the type of animals; some are repeated

Sex

the sex of the animal; one of F or M

Mass

the mass of the animal (or mean mass of the animals, when multiple animals are represented), in kg

Duration

the urination time of the animal (or the mean, when multiple animals are represented), in seconds

SampleSize

the size of the sample represented by the data, usually 1

Details

The data give the duration time for urination for animals of different sex and mass. The data were collected using numerous methods (including YouTube videos); see details in Yang et al. (2014). From the paper: “we discover that all mammals above 3 kg in weight empty their bladders over nearly constant duration of 21 \pm 13 s.” (p. 11932)

Source

Yang et al. (2014) supplementary information Table S1.

References

Patricia J. Yang, Jonathan Pham, Jerome Choo, and David L. Hu (2014) Duration of urination does not change with body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(33), 11932–11937.

Examples

   data(urinationD)
   summary(urinationD)