fish: Fish measurements from Laengelmavesi Lake, near Tampere,...

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Fish measurements from Laengelmavesi Lake, near Tampere, Finland

Description

Data set for modeling weight on the other variables. Data was first presented in a publication from 1917.

Usage

fish

Format

A data frame with 159 observations of 8 variables

obs

Observation number

species

One of 1 = Bream, 2 = Whitefish, 3 = Roach, 4 = Parkki, 5 = Smelt, 6 = Pike or 7 = Perch

weight

Weight of fish (g)

length1

Length from nose to the beginning of the tail (cm)

length2

Length from nose to the notch of the tail (cm)

length3

Length from nose to end of tail (cm)

height_percent

Maximal height as percentage of length3

width_percent

Maximal width as percentage of length3

sex

1 = male, 0 = female

Details

Apparently, observation 143 had 6 roach in its stomach and may be an outlier.

Source

"Brofeldt, Pekka: Bidrag till kaennedom on fiskbestondet i vaara sjoear. Laengelmaevesi. T.H.Jaervi: Finlands Fiskeriet Band 4 Meddelanden utgivna av fiskerifoereningen i Finland. Helsingfors 1917

http://jse.amstat.org/datasets/fishcatch.txt

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