Boxes of trout eggs were buried at five different stream locations and retrieved at 4 different times. The number of surviving eggs was recorded. The box was not returned to the stream.
data(troutegg)A data frame with 20 observations on the following 4 variables.
survivethe number of surviving eggs
totalthe number of eggs in the box
locationthe location in the stream with levels 1 2 3 4 5
periodthe number of weeks after placement that the
box was withdrawn levels 4 7 8 11
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