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budworm: Western Spuce Budworm

Description

Counts of western spuce budworm (Choristoneura freemani) across seven developmental stages (five larval instars, pupae, and adults) on 12 sampling occasions.

Usage

data(budworm)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with the following variables.

ddeg

Degree days.

total

Sum of stages 1--7.

stage1, stage2, stage3, stage4

Successive stages.

stage5, stage6, stage7

Successive stages.

Details

This data concerns the development of a defoliating moth widespread in western North America (i.e., north of Mexico). According to Boersch-Supan (2021), the insect passes hrough successive stages \(j=1,\ldots,r\), delimited by \(r-1\) moults. The data was originally used in a 1986 publication but has been corrected for two sampling occasions; the data appears in Candy (1990) and was analyzed in Boersch-Supan (2021). See the latter for more references.

References

Boersch-Supan, P. H. (2021). Modeling insect phenology using ordinal regression and continuation ratio models. ReScience C, 7.1, 1--14.

Examples

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budworm
summary(budworm)

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