fly: Fruit Fly Dataset

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Fruit Fly Dataset

Description

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

Usage

data(fly)

Format

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).

Source

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

References

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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