Weight Data for Domestic Cats

Arguments

Sex A factor for the sex of the cat (levels are F and M).
Bwt Body weight in kg.
Hwt Heart weight in kg.

SUMMARY

The cats data frame has 144 rows and 3 columns.

The catsM data frame has 97 rows and 3 columns.

144 adult (over 2kg in weight) cats used for experiments with the drug digitalis had their heart and body weight recorded. 47 of the cats were female and 97 were male. The catsM data frame consists of the data for the male cats.

DATA DESCRIPTION

This data frames contain the following columns:

SOURCE

The data were obtained from

Fisher, R.A. (1947) The analysis of covariance method for the relation between a part and the whole. Biometrics, 3, 65-68.

OTHER 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.


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