ex1221: Predicting Desert Wildflower Blooms
Description
These data are monthly rainfalls from September to March and the subjectively
rated quality of the following spring wildflower display for each of a number
of years at each of four desert locations in the southwestern United States
(Upland Sonoran Desert near Tucson, the lower Colorado River Valley section of
the Sonoran Desert, the Baja California region of the Sonoran Desert, and the
Mojave Desert). The quality of the display was judged subjectively with
ordered rating categories of poor, fair, good, great, and spectacular. The
variable Score is numerical variable corresponding to these ordered categories.
A goal is to find an equation for predicting quality of wildflower blooms from
the rainfall variables.source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.References
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, ``Wildflower Flourishes and Flops: a 50--Year
History,'' www.desertmuseum.org/programs/flw_wildflwrbloom.html
(July 25, 2011).