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Fruit Fly Dataset
Description
This dataset is from a study on the effects of temperature on development of the common fruit fly.
Usage
data(fly)
Format
This data frame consists of 23 batches with the following 8 variables measured:
temp
The experimental temperature (in degrees Celsius).exp.no
The experiment number.duration
The mean duration of the embryonic period (in hours).dur.var
The standard deviation of the duration of the recorded embryonic period.batch
The number of eggs in each batch.batch.sd
The standard deviation of the number of eggs in each batch.egg.temp
The temperature in which the eggs were laid (in degrees Celsius).egg.dur
The duration the eggs remained in the given conditions (in hours).
Source
Powsner, L. (1935), The Effects of Temperature on the Durations of the Developmental Stages of Drosophila Melanogaster, Physiological Zoology, 8, 474–520.
References
McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989), Generalized Linear Models, CRC Press.
Young, D. S. (2017), Handbook of Regression Methods, CRC Press.