FSA (version 0.8.11)

SpotVA1: Age and length of spot.

Description

Ages (from otoliths) and lengths of Virginia Spot (Leiostomus xanthurus).

Format

A data frame of 403 observations on the following 2 variables:

Source

Extracted from Table 1 in Chapter 8 (Spot) of the VMRC Final Report on Finfish Ageing, 2002 by the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University.

Topic(s)

• Growth
• von Bertalanffy

Details

Final length measurements were simulated by adding a uniform error to the value at the beginning of the length category.

See Also

See SpotVA2 in FSAdata for related data.

Examples

data(SpotVA1)
str(SpotVA1)
head(SpotVA1)
plot(tl~age,data=SpotVA1)