DAAG (version 0.58)

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

primates

source

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

Examples

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)