FSA (version 0.8.30)

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:

tl

Measured total lengths (in inches)

age

Ages assigned from examination of otoliths

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

Used in vbFuns, vbStarts, and nlsTracePlot examples. Also see SpotVA2 in FSAdata for related data.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
str(SpotVA1)
head(SpotVA1)
plot(tl~age,data=SpotVA1)

# }