BirdNest

<p>Nest and species characteristics for North American passerines</p>

datasets

Datasets for the textbook Stat2: Modeling with Regression and ANOVA (second edition).
The package also includes data for the first edition, Stat2: Building Models for a World of Data
and a few functions for plotting diagnostics.

Robin Lock

Stat2Data

Datasets for Stat2

BirdNest function

<p>A data frame with 84 observations on the following 12 variables.</p><table><tr><td>
    <code>Species</code> </td>
<td> Latin species name</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Common</code> </td>
<td> Common species name</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Page</code> </td>
<td> Page in a bird manual describing the species</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Length</code> </td>
<td> Mean body length for the species (in cm)</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Nesttype</code> </td>
<td> Type of nest</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Location</code> </td>
<td> Location of nest</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>No.eggs</code> </td>
<td> Number of eggs</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Color</code> </td>
<td> Egg color (<code>0</code>=plain/solid or <code>1</code>=speckled/spotted)</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Incubate</code> </td>
<td> Mean length of time (in days) the species incubates eggs in the nest</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Nestling</code> </td>
<td> Mean length of time (in days) the species cares for babies in the nest until fledged</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Totcare</code> </td>
<td> Total care time = Incubate+Nestling</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Closed</code> </td>
<td> 1=closed nest (pendant, spherical, cavity, crevice, burrow), 0=open nest (saucer, cup)</td>
</tr></table>

`Species`	Latin species name
`Common`	Common species name
`Page`	Page in a bird manual describing the species
`Length`	Mean body length for the species (in cm)
`Nesttype`	Type of nest
`Location`	Location of nest
`No.eggs`	Number of eggs
`Color`	Egg color (`0`=plain/solid or `1`=speckled/spotted)
`Incubate`	Mean length of time (in days) the species incubates eggs in the nest
`Nestling`	Mean length of time (in days) the species cares for babies in the nest until fledged
`Totcare`	Total care time = Incubate+Nestling
`Closed`	1=closed nest (pendant, spherical, cavity, crevice, burrow), 0=open nest (saucer, cup)

BirdNest: Nest Characteristics for Different Bird Species

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