birds


The data were originally derived from a study 
which investigated numbers of bird species in isolated
islands of paramo vegetation in the northern Andes.


datasets

Functions, data sets, analyses and examples from the
third edition of the book
`A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R' (Torsten Hothorn and Brian S.
Everitt, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2014). The first chapter
of the book, which is entitled `An Introduction to R',
is completely included in this package, for all other chapters,
a vignette containing all data analyses is available. In addition,
Sweave source code for slides of selected chapters is included in
this package (see HSAUR3/inst/slides).

Torsten Hothorn

HSAUR3

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R (3rd Edition)

birds function

A data frame with 14 observations on the following 5 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>N</code></dt><dd>number of species</dd> <dt><code>AR</code></dt><dd>area of island in thousands of square km</dd> <dt><code>EL</code></dt><dd>elevation in thousands of m</dd> <dt><code>Dec</code></dt><dd>distance from Ecuador in km</dd> <dt><code>DNI</code></dt><dd>distance to the nearest island in km</dd> </dl> 

Format

 F. Vuilleumier (1970), Insular biogeography in continental regions. 
   I. The northern Andes of South America. <em>The American Naturalist</em> 
   <b>104</b>, 373--388 

birds: Birds in Paramo Vegetation Data

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