openintro (version 1.3)

possum: possum

Description

Data representing possums in Australia and New Guinea. This is a copy of the data set by the same name in the DAAG package, however, the data set included here includes fewer variables.

Usage

data(possum)

source

Lindenmayer, D. B., Viggers, K. L., Cunningham, R. B., and Donnelly, C. F. 1995. Morphological variation among columns of the mountain brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Phalangeridae: Marsupiala). Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 449-458.

References

http://www.openintro.org/

Examples

data(possum)
par(mfrow=1:2)
plot(possum$headL, possum$skullW)
densityPlot(possum$totalL, possum$sex, key=c('f','m'),
	xlab='total length (cm)')
legend('topright', col=c('black', 'red'), lty=1:2, legend=c('f', 'm'))

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