Bamboolife


Bamboo is a peculiar plant. Individual plant is a cluster (called clump) of shoots called culms. A clump has a long life of about 40 years and produces seeds in super abundance only once, at the end of life. Further all bamboo clumps in a region develop flowers and seeds together and die together at the same time. There is no variation in age at death.  However, there is variation in the lifespan of individual culms. Data is on survival of 439 culms of bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus). 

datasets

Collection of datasets as prepared by Profs. A.P. Gore, S.A. Paranjape, and M.B. Kulkarni of Department of Statistics, Poona University, India. With their permission, first letter of their names forms the name of this package, the package has been built by me and made available for the benefit of R users. This collection requires a rich class of models and can be a very useful building block for a beginner.

Prabhanjan Tattar

100 Data Sets for Statistics Education

Bamboolife function

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 2 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>Age</code></dt><dd>Age in years</dd> <dt><code>Survivors</code></dt><dd>Number of survivors</dd> </dl> 

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Bamboolife: Preparing a life table for the Bamboo plant

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