Cetacea {relations}

Cetacea Data

Description

A data set with 16 variables on 36 different types of cetacea.

Usage

data("Cetacea")

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on 16 categorical variables. The first 15 variables relate to morphology, osteology, or behavior, and have both self-explanatory names and levels. The last (CLASS) gives a common zoological classification.

Source

G. Vescia (1985). Descriptive classification of Cetacea: Whales, porpoises, and dolphins. In: J. F. Marcotorchino, J. M. Proth, and J. Janssen (eds.), Data analysis in real life environment: ins and outs of solving problems. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Examples

data("Cetacea")
summary(Cetacea)
## Show the cetacea types grouped by class.
split(rownames(Cetacea), Cetacea$CLASS)