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jackal: Mandible lengths of male and female golden jackals

Description

Mandible lengths (in mm) for male and female golden jackals (Canis aureus) from a collection of specimens in the British Museum of Natural History, London, UK.

Usage

data(jackal)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on 2 variables:

Length

A numeric vector containing mandible lengths in mm.

Sex

A factor with levels Male and Female.

References

Higham, C.F.W., Kijngam, A., and Manly, B.F.J. (1980). An analysis of prehistoric canid remains from Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science, 7, 149--165.

Manly, B.F.J. (2007). Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology, third edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton.

Examples

Run this code
data(jackal)
str(jackal)

## boxplot of mandible length vs sex
plot(Length ~ Sex, data = jackal)

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