lakemary: Lake Mary bluegills
Description
78 bluegills were captured from Lake Mary, Minnesota. On each fish, a
key scale was removed. The age of a fish is determined by counting the
number of annular rings on the scale. The goal is to relate length at
capture to the radius of the scale.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- Age
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Years
- Length
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mm
Source
Collected by Richard Frie, and discussed
in S. Weisberg (1986), A linear model approach to the backcalculation of
fish length, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 81, 922-929.References
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 11.2.1.