sires: sires: Milk Production from Dairy Cows

siresR Documentation

sires: Milk Production from Dairy Cows

Description

From a population of sires, five sires were chosen at random, and for each of these sires the annual milk production for eight of their daughters were recorded.

Usage

sires

Format

A data frame with 40 observations (rows) and 2 variables (columns).

Column name Data type Description Values
[,1] milk integer Milk produced from each cow in kg (5970 - 7562)
[,2] sire integer The father of the cow (1 - 5)

Details

The names of the sires:

1: Åge
2: Hynar
3: Lars
4: Buss
5: Gorm

The sire data sets have been used in STAT210 and other courses at NMBU over several years. While this data set consists of observed milk production for 40 cows, the SireHerd data has 24 observations. SireHerd contains information of what herd the cows belong to. sires and SireHerd do not contain the same observations.

See Also

SireHerd

Examples


# One box for daughters of the same sire,
boxplot(milk ~ sire, data = sires)

# Linear model
lm(milk ~ sire, data = sires)


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