tortoise {HoRM}

Tortoise Eggs Dataset

Description

This dataset is from a study on the number of eggs in female gopher tortoises in southern Florida.

Usage

data(tortoise)

Format

This data frame consists of 2 variables measured on 18 tortoises:

• length The carapace length (in millimeters).

• clutch The number of eggs (clutch size).

Source

Ashton, K. G., Burke, R. L., and Layne, J. N. (2007), Geographic Variation in Body and Clutch Size of Gopher Tortoises, Copeia, 2007, 355–363.

References

Young, D. S. (2017), Handbook of Regression Methods, CRC Press.