jackal: Mandible lengths of male and female golden jackals

In permute: Functions for Generating Restricted Permutations of Data

Mandible lengths of male and female golden jackals

Description

Mandible lengths (in mm) for male and female golden jackals (Canis aureus) from a collection of specimens in the British Museum of Natural History, London, UK.

Usage

data(jackal)

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

Length

a numeric vector

Sex

a factor with levels Male Female

Source

The data were manually transcribed from Manly (2007).

References

Higham, C.F.W., Kijngam, A., and Manly, B.F.J. (1980) An analysis of prehistoric canid remains from Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science 7:149-165.

Manly, B.F.J. (2007) Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology. Third Edition. Chapman \& Hall/CRC, Boca Raton.

Examples

data(jackal)
str(jackal)

## boxplot of mandible length vs sex
plot(Length ~ Sex, data = jackal)

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