slug: Slug data

In Bolstad: Functions for Elementary Bayesian Inference

Description

Lengths and weights of 100 slugs from the species Limax maximus collected around Hamilton, New Zealand.

Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 4 variables.

• length. length (mm) of the slug

• weight. weight (g) of the slug

• log.len. natural logarithm of the length

• log.wt. natural logarithm of the weight

References

Barker, G. and McGhie, R. (1984). The Biology of Introduced Slugs (Pulmonata) in New Zealand: Introduction and Notes on Limax Maximus, NZ Entomologist 8, 106–111.

Examples

data(slug)
plot(weight~length, data = slug)
plot(log.wt~log.len, data = slug)

Bolstad documentation built on Jan. 8, 2021, 2:03 a.m.