fly: Fruit Fly Dataset
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Description Usage Format Source References

This dataset is from a study on the effects of temperature on development of the common fruit fly.

data(fly)

This data frame consists of 23 batches with the following 8 variables measured:

temp The experimental temperature (in degrees Celsius).
exp.no The experiment number.
duration The mean duration of the embryonic period (in hours).
dur.var The standard deviation of the duration of the recorded embryonic period.
batch The number of eggs in each batch.
batch.sd The standard deviation of the number of eggs in each batch.
egg.temp The temperature in which the eggs were laid (in degrees Celsius).
egg.dur The duration the eggs remained in the given conditions (in hours).

Powsner, L. (1935), The Effects of Temperature on the Durations of the Developmental Stages of Drosophila Melanogaster, Physiological Zoology, 8, 474–520.

McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989), Generalized Linear Models, CRC Press.

Young, D. S. (2017), Handbook of Regression Methods, CRC Press.

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