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flea.beetles: Flea Beetles data

Description

Two species of flea beetle (Haltica oleracea, H. carduourum), with 4 body measurements

Usage

data(flea.beetles)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 39 observations; 19 from Haltica oleracea and 20 from H. carduourum (denoted by a factor) and four measurements.
Species
a factor with levels oleracea carduorum
TG
Distange of the Transverse Groove to the posterior border of the prothorax (microns)
Elytra
Length of the Elytra (in units of 0.01mm)
Second.Antenna
Length of the second antennal joint (microns)
Third.Antenna
Length of the third antennal joint (microns)

Source

Lubischew, A.A. (1962) “On the use of discriminant functions in taxonomy”. Biometrics 18:455-477

Details

References

Flury, B.D. (1997) A First Course in Multivariate Statistics, New York: Springer

Examples

Run this code
data(flea.beetles)
## Not run: pairs(flea.beetles[,-1],
#   lower.panel = function(x, y){ points(x, y,
#   pch = unclass(flea.beetles[,1]),
#   col = unclass(flea.beetles[,1]))},
#   main = "Pairwise scatter plots for Lubischew's Flea Beetle data")
# ## End(Not run)

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