lakemary {alr4}

Lake Mary bluegills

Description

78 bluegills were captured from Lake Mary, Minnesota. On each fish, a key scale was removed. The age of a fish is determined by counting the number of annular rings on the scale. The goal is to relate length at capture to the radius of the scale.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Age

Years

Length

mm

Source

Collected by Richard Frie, and discussed in S. Weisberg (1986), A linear model approach to the backcalculation of fish length, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 81, 922-929.

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

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