brains


The data provided gives the average body weight in kilograms and the average brain weight in grams for sixty-two species of mammals.

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This package is a companion to the textbook S. Weisberg (2014),
"Applied Linear Regression," 4rd edition, Wiley. It includes all the
data sets discussed in the book and one function to access the textbook's
website.
This package depends on the car package.  Many data files in this package
are included in the alr3 package as well, so only one of them should be
loaded.

Sanford Weisberg

alr4

Data to accompany Applied Linear Regression 4rd edition

brains function

This data frame uses species names as row labels and
contains the following columns:
 <dl>
    <dt>BrainWt</dt><dd>
Brain weight, grams 
    </dd> <dt>BodyWt</dt><dd>
Body weight, kg 
    </dd> </dl> 

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Allison, T. and Cicchetti, D. (1976). Sleep in mammals: Ecology and constitutional correlates. <em>Science</em>, 194, 732-734.

brains: Mammal brain weights

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