Description
Data from a foster feeding experiment with rat mothers and litters of
four different genotypes: A
, B
, I
and J
.
Rat litters were separated from their natural mothers at birth and
given to foster mothers to rear.Format
The data frame has the following components:
Litter
-
genotype of the litter.
Mother
-
genotype of the foster mother.
Wt
-
Litter average weight gain of the litter, in grams at age 28 days.
(The source states that the within-litter variability is negligible.)
References
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999)
Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third
Edition. Springer.