crab: crab

crabR Documentation

crab

Description

The data set for a study of nesting horseshoe crabs.

Usage

data(crab)

Format

A data frame with 5 columns and 173 rows. The columns are:

  • COLOR: Crab’s color; 1 = light medium; 2 = medium; 3 = dark medium; 4 = dark.

  • SPINE: Crab’s spine condition; 1 = both good; 2 = one worn or broken; 3 = both worn or broken.

  • WEIGHT: Crab’s weight in kilogram.

  • WIDTH: Crab’s carapace width in centimeter.

  • SATELLITES: The number of satellites for a female crab.

Details

In this study, each female horseshoe crab in the study had a male crab attached to her in her nest. The study investigated factors that affect whether the female crab had any other males, called satellites, residing near her.

References

Brockmann, H. J. (1996). Satellite male groups in horseshoe crabs, limulus polyphe- mus. Ethology 102(1), 1–21.

Agresti, A. (2012). Categorical Data Analysis (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley.

Examples

data(crab)

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