beaver {SMPracticals}

Body Temperatures for a Female Beaver

Description

Data comprise 100 consecutive elemetric measurements of the body temperature of a female beaver, at 10-minute intervals. The animal remained in its lodge for the first 38 recordings, and then went outside.

Usage

data(beaver)

Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 4 variables.

day

Day number

time

Time of day (hhmm)

temp

Body temperature (degrees Celsius)

activ

Indicator of activity outside the lodge

Source

Reynolds, P. S. (1994) Time-series analyses of beaver body temperatures. In Case Studies in Biometry, eds N. Lange, L. Ryan, L. Billard, D. R. Brillinger, L. Conquest and J. Greenhouse, pp. 211–228. New York: Wiley.

References

Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 266.

Examples

data(beaver)
plot(beaver$temp,type="l",xlab="Time",ylab="Temperature")