smacker


These data were recorded by a Spanish survey, as part of a multi-country 
survey of the abundance of mackerel eggs off the coast of north-western 
Europe, in 1992.  <p></p><p>The variables are:
<table><tr><td>
	<code>Density</code>     </td>
</tr><tr><td>  egg density </td>
</tr><tr><td>
	<code>smack.lat</code>   </td>
</tr><tr><td>  latitude of sampling position </td>
</tr><tr><td>
	<code>smack.long</code>  </td>
</tr><tr><td>  longitude of sampling position </td>
</tr><tr><td>
	<code>smack.depth</code> </td>
</tr><tr><td>  bottom depth </td>
</tr><tr><td>
	<code>Temperature</code> </td>
</tr><tr><td>  surface temperature </td>
</tr></table></p><p>Background to the survey and the data are provided by Watson et al. (1992), Priede and Watson (1993) and Priede et al (1995).  Borchers et al (1997) describe an analysis of the data.
</p>

regression

smooth

This is software linked to the book
'Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis -
The Kernel Approach with S-Plus Illustrations' Oxford University Press.

smacker: Mackerel data from a Spanish survey

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