kanga {faraway}

Kangaroo skull measurements

Description

Sex and species of an specimens of kangaroo.

Format

A data frame with 148 observations on the following 20 variables.

species

a factor with levels fuliginosus giganteus melanops

sex

a factor with levels Female Male

basilar.length

a numeric vector

occipitonasal.length

a numeric vector

palate.length

a numeric vector

palate.width

a numeric vector

nasal.length

a numeric vector

nasal.width

a numeric vector

squamosal.depth

a numeric vector

lacrymal.width

a numeric vector

zygomatic.width

a numeric vector

orbital.width

a numeric vector

.rostral.width

a numeric vector

occipital.depth

a numeric vector

crest.width

a numeric vector

foramina.length

a numeric vector

mandible.length

a numeric vector

mandible.width

a numeric vector

mandible.depth

a numeric vector

ramus.height

a numeric vector

Source

Andrews and Herzberg (1985) Chapter 53.

References

Andrews, D. F. and Herzberg, A. M. (1985). Data. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Examples

data(kanga)
## maybe str(kanga) ; plot(kanga) ...