Frogfood: Study of growth and food preference over age in frogs

In gpk: 100 Data Sets for Statistics Education

Description

When an animal is to be harvested for food it is important to understand its growth pattern and energy requirement. In case of frogs it is of interest to study the relation age X body weight and fit a suitable curve. Further it appears that as age increases, the dietary pattern undergoes change. Hence it is also relevant to study relationship of age with each of 4 components of diet in variables of intake from crabs to total.

Usage

data(Frogfood)

Format

A data frame with 7 observations on the following 6 variables.

Age

Age in year group

Body_Weight

Body weight in grams

Intake_Crabs

Intake of crabs in grams

Intake_Insects

Intake of insects in grams

Intake_Larvae

Intake of larvae in grams

Total_intake

Total intake in grams

Details

Explore the use of linear regression, curvilinear regression, and examine their residuals.

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html

Examples

data(Frogfood)

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