mammal.dentition {cluster.datasets}R Documentation

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)

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