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mammal.dentition: Hartigan (1975) Dentition of Animals

Description

The table contains for each animal the number of teeth in each major grouping. This is Table 9.1 in Chapter 9 of Hartigan (1975) on page 170.

Usage

data(mammal.dentition)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 66 observations on the following 9 variables.
name
a character vector for the name of the animal
top.i
a numeric vector for the number of top incisors
bottom.i
a numeric vector for the number of bottom incisors
top.c
a numeric vector for the number of top canines
bottom.c
a numeric vector for the number of bottom canines
top.pm
a numeric vector for the the number of top premolars
bottom.pm
a numeric vector for the number of bottom premolars
top.m
a numeric vector for the number of top molars
bottom.m
a numeric vector for the number of bottom molars

Source

Palmer, E. I. (1957). Fieldbook of Mammals , Dutton, New York. SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

Hartigan uses this table to illustrate a tree-leader algorithm.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

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data(mammal.dentition)

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