tortues: Morphological Study of the Painted Turtle

In ade4: Analysis of Ecological Data: Exploratory and Euclidean Methods in Environmental Sciences

Morphological Study of the Painted Turtle

Description

This data set gives a morphological description (4 characters) of 48 turtles.

Usage

data(tortues)

Format

a data frame with 48 rows and 4 columns (length (mm), maximum width(mm), height (mm), gender).

Source

Jolicoeur, P. and Mosimann, J. E. (1960) Size and shape variation in the painted turtle. A principal component analysis. Growth, 24, 339–354.

Examples

data(tortues)
xyz <- as.matrix(tortues[, 1:3])
ref <- -svd(xyz)$u[, 1]
pch0 <- c(1, 20)[as.numeric(tortues$sexe)]
plot(ref, xyz[, 1], ylim = c(40, 180), pch = pch0)
abline(lm(xyz[, 1] ~ -1 + ref))
points(ref,xyz[, 2], pch = pch0)
abline(lm(xyz[, 2] ~ -1 + ref))
points(ref,xyz[, 3], pch = pch0)
abline(lm(xyz[, 3] ~ -1 + ref))

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