mammalsize


Data are from American Naturalist (1974) p.593-613. Animals have properties that make them better capable of living and multiplying. One expects that larger brain may be generally better. But there can be penalties and limitations. One limitation is need for longer pregnancy and the other is the need to have fewer offsprings. The benefit must outweigh penalties. What are the characteristics associated with large brains? Generally, larger brain should go with larger body. What if we compare brain sizes after taking into consideration the body size? Are there any species that stand out?


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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

mammalsize function

A data frame with 96 observations on the following 5 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>Species</code></dt><dd>Name of the species</dd> <dt><code>Gestation_Period</code></dt><dd>Gestation period (days)</dd> <dt><code>Brain</code></dt><dd>Brain weight (gms)</dd> <dt><code>Body</code></dt><dd>Body weight (kg)</dd> <dt><code>Litter_Size</code></dt><dd>Litter size</dd> </dl> 

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mammalsize: Correlates of brain size for the mammals

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