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fitdistrplus (version 1.2-1)

toxocara: Parasite abundance in insular feral cats

Description

Toxocara cati abundance in feral cats living on Kerguelen island.

Usage

data(toxocara)

Arguments

Format

toxocara is a data frame with 1 column (number: number of parasites in digestive tract)

Examples

Run this code
# (1) load of data
#
data(toxocara)

# (2) description and plot of data
#
number <- toxocara$number
descdist(number, discrete = TRUE, boot = 11)
plotdist(number, discrete = TRUE)

# (3) fit of a Poisson distribution to data
#
fitp <- fitdist(number, "pois")
summary(fitp)
plot(fitp)

# (4) fit of a negative binomial distribution to data
#
fitnb <- fitdist(number, "nbinom")
summary(fitnb)
plot(fitnb)

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