bodyfat_Aeolus {PLreg}

Body Fat of Little Brown Bat

Description

A dataset containing the percent body fat of little brown bats sampled in Aeolus Cave, located in East Dorset, Vermont, in the North Eastern United States.

Usage

data(bodyfat_Aeolus)

Format

A data frame with 159 rows and 4 variables:

sex

sex of the sampled bat, M for masculine and F for feminine.

percentfat

percent body fat.

year

year the bat was sampled.

days

hibernation time, defined as days since the fall equinox.

Details

The complete dataset was collected by Cheng et al. (2019) in five different regions of the United States. bodyfat_Aeolus is the subset of the data collected in Aeolus Cave, located in East Dorset, Vermont, in the North Eastern United States.

Source

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sh487nh

References

Cheng TL, Gerson A, Moore MS, et al. (2019) Higher fat stores contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white-nose syndrome. J Anim Ecol. 88:591-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12954

Examples

data("bodyfat_Aeolus")
# Model with zeta = 2
fit <- PLreg(percentfat ~ days + sex + year, data = bodyfat_Aeolus,
             family = "PE", zeta = 2)
summary(fit)