robustus {Flury} | R Documentation |
Australopithecus robustus are early hominids from Africa. The molar size is assumed to be larger in males than female, these data can therefore be used with a mixture model in a study on sexual dimorphism.
data(robustus)
'robustus' is a vector with 36 observations on the breadth (mm) of the lower first molar of Australopithecus robustus.
Dong, Z. (1996) Looking into Peking Man's subsistence - a taphonomic analysis of the middle pleistocene Homo erectus site in China. Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
Flury, B.D. (1997) A First Course in Multivariate Statistics, New York: Springer
data(robustus) ## Not run: hist(robustus, breaks =11, main = "Molar breadth") ## End(Not run)