bodyfat_Aeolus: Body Fat of Little Brown Bat
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bodyfat_Aeolus

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Body Fat of Little Brown Bat

Description

A dataset containing the percent body fat of little brown bats sampled in Aeolus Cave, located in East Dorset, Vermont, in the North Eastern United States.

Usage

data(bodyfat_Aeolus)

Format

A data frame with 159 rows and 4 variables:

sex: sex of the sampled bat, M for masculine and F for feminine.
percentfat: percent body fat.
year: year the bat was sampled.
days: hibernation time, defined as days since the fall equinox.

Details

The complete dataset was collected by Cheng et al. (2019) in five different regions of the United States. bodyfat_Aeolus is the subset of the data collected in Aeolus Cave, located in East Dorset, Vermont, in the North Eastern United States.

Source

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sh487nh

References

Cheng TL, Gerson A, Moore MS, et al. (2019) Higher fat stores contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white-nose syndrome. J Anim Ecol. 88:591-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12954

Examples

data("bodyfat_Aeolus")
# Model with zeta = 2
fit <- PLreg(percentfat ~ days + sex + year, data = bodyfat_Aeolus,
             family = "PE", zeta = 2)
summary(fit)

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