fishfood: Food consumption for fish

In GLMsData: Generalized Linear Model Data Sets

Food consumption for fish

Description

The food consumption for various fish species

Usage

data(fishfood)

Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 6 variables.

Species

the fish species; an identifier

MaxWt

the mean asymptotic (or maximum) weight of the fish in grams; a numeric vector

Temp

the mean habitat temperature in degrees Celsius; a numeric vector

AR

the aspect ratio of the fish; a numeric vector

Food

the food type for the fish; a factor with levels C for carnivores, and H for herbivores

FoodCon

the daily food consumption of a fish population as a percentage of its biomass; a numeric vector

Details

The computation of the aspect ratio is detailed in the source.

Source

M. L. Palomares and D. Pauly (1989) A multiple regression model for predicting the food consumption of marine fish population. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 40(3), 259–284.

Examples

data(fishfood)
summary(fishfood)

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