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mammals: Brain and Body Weights in Mammals

Description

The mammals data frame has 62 rows and 2 columns.

The data give average brain weight and average body weight for 62 different species of land mammals. Each row in the data frame is named with the name of the species whose measurements are in the row.

Usage

data(mammals)

source

The data were obtained from

Weisberg, S. (1985) Applied Linear Regression (Second edition). John Wiley.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Venables, W.N. and Ripley, B.D. (1994) Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Springer-Verlag.