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HSAUR3 (version 1.0-5)

foster: Foster Feeding Experiment

Description

The data are from a foster feeding experiment with rat mothers and litters of four different genotypes. The measurement is the litter weight after a trial feeding period.

Usage

data("foster")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 61 observations on the following 3 variables.
litgen
genotype of the litter, a factor with levels A, B, I, and J.
motgen
genotype of the mother, a factor with levels A, B, I, and J.
weight
the weight of the litter after a feeding period.

Source

D. J. Hand, F. Daly, A. D. Lunn, K. J. McConway and E. Ostrowski (1994). A Handbook of Small Datasets, Chapman and Hall/CRC, London.

Details

Here the interest lies in uncovering the effect of genotype of mother and litter on litter weight.

Examples

Run this code

  data("foster", package = "HSAUR3")
  plot.design(foster)

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