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lynx: Canadian Lynx Trappings

Description

This is the same data as contained in the Splus data set of the same name except that the time series is now of class "rts". The time series contains 114 observations.

The data give the annual number of lynx trappings in the Mackenzie River District of North-West Canada for the period 1821 to 1934.

source

The data were obtained from

Hand, D.J., Daly, F., Lunn, A.D., McConway, K.J. and Ostrowski, E. (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets, Chapman and Hall.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Elton, C. and Nicholson, M. (1942) The ten-year cycle in numbers of lynx in Canada. J. of Animal Ecology, 11, 215-244.