ex0328: Pollen Removal

In Sleuth2: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

Description

As part of a study to investigate reproductive strategies in plants, biologists recorded the time spent at sources of pollen and the proportions of pollen removed by bumblebee queens and honeybee workers pollinating a species of lily.

Usage

ex0328

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 3 variables.

Removed

proportion of pollen removed

Duration

duration of visit (in seconds)

Bee

factor variable with levels "Queen" and "Worker"

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Harder, L.D. and Thompson, J.D. (1989). Evolutionary Options for Maximizing Pollen Dispersal of Animal-pollinated Plants, American Naturalist 133: 323–344.

Examples

str(ex0328)

Example output

'data.frame':	47 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ Removed : num  0.07 0.1 0.11 0.12 0.15 ...
 $ Duration: num  2 5 7 11 12 11 9 9 16 17 ...
 $ Bee     : Factor w/ 2 levels "Queen","Worker": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

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