possum: possum
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington

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Data representing possums in Australia and New Guinea. This is a copy of the data set by the same name in the DAAG package, however, the data set included here includes fewer variables.

possum

A data frame with 104 observations on the following 8 variables.

site: The site number where the possum was trapped.
pop: Population, either Vic (Victoria) or other (New South Wales or Queensland).
sex: Gender, either m (male) or f (female).
age: Age.
head_l: Head length, in mm.
skull_w: Skull width, in mm.
total_l: Total length, in cm.
tail_l: Tail length, in cm.

Lindenmayer, D. B., Viggers, K. L., Cunningham, R. B., and Donnelly, C. F. 1995. Morphological variation among columns of the mountain brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Phalangeridae: Marsupiala). Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 449-458.

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(possum, aes(x = head_l, y = skull_w)) +
  geom_point()

ggplot(possum, aes(x = total_l, fill = sex)) +
  geom_density(alpha = 0.5)