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Barnacle dataset.

Source: R/barnacle.R
barnacle.Rd

This barnacle data set gives the measurements of the variables dry weight (in g.) and rostro-carinal lenght (in mm) for 2000 barnacles collected along the intertidal zone from two sites of the Atlantic coast of Galicia (Spain).

Usage

barnacle

Format

barnacle is a data frame with 2000 cases (rows) and 3 variables (columns).

DW

Dry weight (in g.)

RC

Rostro-carinal lenght (in mm).

F

Factor indicating the sites of harvest: barca and lens.

References

Sestelo, M. and Roca-Pardinas, J. (2011). A new approach to estimation of length-weight relationship of \(Pollicipes\) \(pollicipes\) (Gmelin, 1789) on the Atlantic coast of Galicia (Northwest Spain): some aspects of its biology and management. Journal of Shellfish Research, 30(3), 939--948.

Sestelo, M., Villanueva, N.M., Meira-Machado, L., Roca-Pardinas, J. (2017). npregfast: An R Package for Nonparametric Estimation and Inference in Life Sciences. Journal of Statistical Software, 82(12), 1-27.

Examples

data(barnacle)
head(barnacle)
#>     DW   RC     F
#> 1 0.14  9.5 barca
#> 2 0.00  2.4 barca
#> 3 0.42 13.1 barca
#> 4 0.01  3.7 barca
#> 5 0.03  5.6 barca
#> 6 1.56 18.6 barca