Animal: Animal breeding experiment

Description Format Details Source Examples

Description

The Animal data frame has 20 rows and 3 columns giving the average daily weight gains for animals with different genetic backgrounds.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Sire

a factor denoting the sire. (5 levels)

Dam

a factor denoting the dam. (2 levels)

AvgDailyGain

a numeric vector of average daily weight gains

Details

This appears to be a constructed data set.

Source

Littel, R. C., Milliken, G. A., Stroup, W. W., and Wolfinger, R. D. (1996), SAS System for Mixed Models, SAS Institute (Data Set 6.4).

Examples

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Example output

'data.frame':	20 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ Sire        : Factor w/ 5 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 ...
 $ Dam         : Factor w/ 2 levels "1","2": 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 ...
 $ AvgDailyGain: num  2.24 1.85 2.05 2.41 1.99 1.93 2.72 2.32 2.33 2.68 ...
 - attr(*, "ginfo")=List of 7
  ..$ formula     :Class 'formula'  language AvgDailyGain ~ 1 | Sire/Dam
  .. .. ..- attr(*, ".Environment")=<environment: R_GlobalEnv> 
  ..$ order.groups:List of 2
  .. ..$ Sire: logi TRUE
  .. ..$ Dam : logi TRUE
  ..$ FUN         :function (x)  
  ..$ outer       : NULL
  ..$ inner       : NULL
  ..$ labels      :List of 1
  .. ..$ AvgDailyGain: chr "Average Daily Weight Gain"
  ..$ units       : list()

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