crickets {evidence}

Made-up data that are not unlike the actual data collected by Nespolo et al.(2003).

Description

Nespolo et al.(2003) collected data on the metabolic rates (as measured by oxygen consumption) of crickets kept and acclimated at three different temperatures. Since the original data were not available and only a statistical summary was published, we simulated these data to approximately agree with the statistical summary.

Usage

data(crickets)

Format

A data frame with 292 observations on the following 3 variables:

VO2

oxygen consumption in \mul/h (a measure of basal metabolic rate)

mass

weight of the cricket in mg

temp

temperature in degrees C.

Source

Nespolo et al., 2003.

References

Nespolo, R.F., Lardies, M.A., and Bozinovic, F. 2003. Intrapopulational variation in the standard metabolic rate of insects: repeatability, thermal dependence and sensitivity of (Q[10]) on oxygen consumption in a cricket. Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 4309–4315.

van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.

Examples

data(crickets)
crickets7 <- subset(crickets, crickets$temp==7)
with(crickets7, scatter.smooth(mass, VO2))