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Data on horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus). Response is number of males surrounding a breeding female, color (factor), condition (factor), weight (quantitative), and width (quantitative) of the female.
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A data frame with 173 observations on 6 variables.
Individuals (rows of the data frame) are female horseshoe crabs.
Variables other than satell
refer to these females.
The variables are
color. The colors given in
Agresti are “light medium”, “medium”, “dark medium”,
and “dark”. Here they are abbreviated to light
,
medium
, dark
, and darker
, respectively.
spine condition. The conditions given in Agresti are
“both good”, “one worn or broken”, and
“both worn or broken”.
Here they are abbreviated to good
, middle
, bad
,
respectively.
carapace width in centimeters
number of satellites, which males clustering around the female in addition to the male with which she is breeding.
weight in grams.
shorthand for as.numeric(satell > 0)
.
Quoting from the abstract of Brockmann (1996). “Horseshoe crabs arrive on the beach in pairs and spawn ... during ... high tides. Unattached males also come to the beach, crowd around the nesting couples and compete with attached males for fertilizations. Satellite males form large groups around some couples while ignoring others, resulting in a nonrandom distribution that cannot be explained by local environmental conditions or habitat selection.”
Agresti, A. (2013) Categorical Data Analysis, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ., Section 4.3.2, http://users.stat.ufl.edu/~aa/cda/data.html
Brockmann, H. J. (1996) Satellite Male Groups in Horseshoe Crabs, Limulus polyphemus, Ethology, 102, 1–21.
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