BiplotGUI (version 0.0-2)

AntiqueFurniture: Antique furniture data set

Description

Microscopic measurements on tree species used to make Old-Cape furniture in South Africa between 1652 and 1900.

Usage

data(AntiqueFurniture)

source

Swart JPJ (1985), Lauracea. Unpublished Masters thesis, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Details

During the period 1652--1900, wood from both the indiginous Ocotea bullata (`Stinkwood') and the imported Ocotea perosa (`Imbuia') were used to make Old-Cape furniture in South Africa. The data set contains mean measurements made on such wood, together with a third species, Ocotea kenyensis. Twenty samples of Ocotea bullata (Obul), 10 samples of Ocotea perosa (Opor) and 7 samples of Ocotea kenyensis (Oken) were inspected microscopically, with eight variables measured on each sample 50 times over. The data are the mean measurements over the 50 repetitions.

References

Burden M, Gardner S, Le Roux NJ, Swart JPJ (2001). ``Ou-Kaapse meubels en stinkhoutidentifikasie: Moontlikhede met kanoniese veranderlike-analise en bistippings.'' South African Journal of Cultural History, 15, 50--73. Le Roux NJ, Gardner S (2005). ``Analysing your multivariate data as a pictorial: A case for applying biplot methodology?'' International Statistical Review, 73(3), 365--387

Examples

data(AntiqueFurniture)
# Paste the following into an interactive R session (without the ##):
## Biplots(Data = AntiqueFurniture[, -1], groups = AntiqueFurniture[, 1])