strider {Flury} | R Documentation |
Water striders live on the surface of lakes and ponds. These insects grow in six distinct stages called instars; at each transition they shed their skin / skeleton. Data has been collected on N=88 female water striders from species Limnoporus canaliculatus. Measurements are reported for the first three instars.
data(strider)
A data frame with 88 observations on the following 6 variables.
Femur1
Tibia1
Femur2
Tibia2
Femur3
Tibia3
The actual analysis used the variables x_j star = 100 log x_j, for the j = 1 to 6 variables reported.
Data courtesy of Dr. C.P. Klingenberg, University of Alberta
Flury, B.D. (1997) A First Course in Multivariate Statistics, New York: Springer
data(strider) ## Not run: X <- 100 * log(strider) cov(X) ## etc. ## End(Not run)