bearsDepu {datana}R Documentation

Age and physical measurement data for wild bears. Data frame same as "bears" but without missing values.

Description

Wild bears were anaesthetised, and their bodies were measured and weighed. One goal of the study was to make a table (or perhaps a set of tables) for people interested in estimating the weight of a bear based on other measurements.

Usage

data(bearsDepu)

Format

Contiene variables de nivel individual, como se describen a continuacion:

id

Bear identificator

age

age in months

month

Diameter at breast height, in cm

sex

1 =male, 2 = female

headL

length of head, in cm

headW

width of head, in cm

neckG

girth of neck, in cm

length

body length, in cm

chestG

girth of chest, in cm

weight

body weight, in kg

obs

observation number for bear

name

name given to bear

Source

Minitab, Inc. The data description is courtesy of Prof. Timothy Gregoire at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA).

References

According to Prof. Gregoire, This data set was supplied by Gary Alt. Entertaining references are in Reader's Digest April, 1979, and Sports Afield September, 1981.

Examples

data(bearsDepu)    
head(bearsDepu)

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