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Hartigan (1975) Dentition of Animals
Description
The table contains for each animal the number of teeth in each major grouping. This is Table 9.1 in Chapter 9 of Hartigan (1975) on page 170.
Usage
data(mammal.dentition)
Format
A data frame with 66 observations on the following 9 variables.
name
a character vector for the name of the animal
top.i
a numeric vector for the number of top incisors
bottom.i
a numeric vector for the number of bottom incisors
top.c
a numeric vector for the number of top canines
bottom.c
a numeric vector for the number of bottom canines
top.pm
a numeric vector for the the number of top premolars
bottom.pm
a numeric vector for the number of bottom premolars
top.m
a numeric vector for the number of top molars
bottom.m
a numeric vector for the number of bottom molars
Details
Hartigan uses this table to illustrate a tree-leader algorithm.
Source
Palmer, E. I. (1957). Fieldbook of Mammals , Dutton, New York.
SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html
References
Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.
Examples
data(mammal.dentition)