DAAG (version 0.37)

primates: Primate Body and Brain Weights

Description

A subset of Animals data frame from the MASS library. It contains the average body and brain measurements of five primates.

Usage

data(primates)

source

P. J. Rousseeuw and A. M. Leroy (1987) Robust Regression and Outlier Detection. Wiley, p. 57.

Examples

data(primates)
attach(primates)
plot(x=Bodywt, y=Brainwt, pch=16,
       xlab="Body weight (kg)", ylab="Brain weight (g)",
       xlim=c(5,300), ylim=c(0,1500))
chw <- par()$cxy[1]
chh <- par()$cxy[2]
text(x=Bodywt+chw, y=Brainwt+c(-.1,0,0,.1,0)*chh,
       labels=row.names(primates), adj=0)
detach(primates)