Cuckoo

Cuckoos are knows to lay their eggs in the nests of other (host) birds. The
eggs are then adopted and hatched by the host birds. These data were
originally collected by O. M. Latter in 1902 to see how the size of a cuckoo
egg is related to the species of the host bird.

datasets

Data sets and utilities to accompany the second edition of
"Foundations and Applications of Statistics: an Introduction
using R" (R Pruim, published by AMS, 2017), a text covering
topics from probability and mathematical statistics at an advanced
undergraduate level.  R is integrated throughout, and access to all
the R code in the book is provided via the snippet() function.

Randall Pruim

fastR2

Foundations and Applications of Statistics Using R (2nd Edition)

Cuckoo function

A data frame with 120 observations on the following 2 variables.<dl>
<dt>length</dt>
<dd>length of egg (mm)</dd><dt>species</dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>hedge sparrow</code>
<code>meadow pipet</code> <code>pied wagtail</code> <code>robin</code> <code>tree pipet</code>
<code>wren</code></dd>
 
</dl>

Format

Cuckoo eggs in other birds' nests — Cuckoo

A data frame with 120 observations on the following 2 variables.<dl>
<dt>length</dt>
<dd>length of egg (mm)</dd>

<dt>species</dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>hedge sparrow</code>
<code>meadow pipet</code> <code>pied wagtail</code> <code>robin</code> <code>tree pipet</code>
<code>wren</code></dd>
 
</dl>

Cuckoo: Cuckoo eggs in other birds' nests

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