strength {goft}

Compressive strength of maize seeds

Description

Compressive strength and strain of maize seeds.

Usage

data("strength")

Format

A data frame with 90 observations on the following 2 variables.

strain

a numeric vector giving the relative change in length under compression stress in millimeters.

cstrength

a numeric vector giving the compressive strength in Newtons.

Details

These data correspond to maize seeds with floury endosperm and 8% of moisture.

Source

Mancera-Rico, A. (2014).

References

Mancera-Rico, A. (2014). Contenido de humedad y tipo de endospermo en la resistencia a compresion en semillas de maiz. Ph.D. Thesis. Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico.

Examples

data(strength)
plot(strength)     # plot of "strain" versus "cstrength"