furseals {bisque}

Data from a capture-recapture study of fur seal pups

Description

These data are used in the book "Computational Statistics" by G.H. Givens and J.A. Hoeting (2013). They are discussed in Chapter 7, Examples 7.2,7.3,7.8, and Exercise 7.2.

Usage

data(furseals)

Format

A data.frame with variables:

i

The census attempt

c

Number of pups captured in census attempt

m

Number of newly captured pups

Details

As described by the authors:

Source: Richard Barker, University of Otago, New Zealand

Description: Data from a capture-recapture study conducted on the Otago Penninsula, South Island, New Zealand. Fur seal pups were marked and released during 7 census attempts in one season. The population is assumed closed. For each census attempt, the number of pups captured and the number of these captures corresponding to pups never previously caught are recorded.

Source

https://www.stat.colostate.edu/computationalstatistics/

https://www.stat.colostate.edu/computationalstatistics/datasets.zip

Examples

data("furseals")
str(furseals)