mussels.dat {Rfwdmv}R Documentation

Horse mussels

Description

These data contain 82 observations on Horse mussels from New Zealand.

Usage

data(mussels.dat)

Format

A data frame with 82 observations on the following 5 variables.

width
a numeric vector, the shell length in mm.
height
a numeric vector, the shell width in mm.
length
a numeric vector the shell height in mm.
shell
a numeric vector the shell mass in grams.
mass
a numeric vector, the muscle mass in grams.

Details

In this example the effect of outliers is masked unless the search uses a suitable transformation.

Source

The data were introduced by Cook and Weisberg (1994), p. 161 who treat them as regression with muscle mass, the edible portion of the mussel, as response.

References

Atkinson, Riani and Cerioli (2004), p. 568-569; http://www.riani.it/arc.

Examples

data(mussels.dat)

[Package Rfwdmv version 0.72-2 Index]