ex2016: Bumpus Natural Selection Data
Description
Hermon Bumpus analysed various characteristics of some house sparrows
that were found on the ground after a severe winter storm in 1898.
Some of the sparrows survived and some perished. This data set
contains the survival status, age, the length from tip of beak to tip
of tail (in mm), the alar extent (length from tip to tip of the extended
wings, in mm), the weight in grams, the length of the head in mm, the
length of the humerus (arm bone, in inches), the length of the femur
(thigh bones, in inches), the length of the tibio--tarsus (leg bone,
in inches), the breadth of the skull in inches and the length of the
sternum in inches.source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.