rodent {rpanel}R Documentation

The mass and speed of quadrupedal rodents

Description

In an investigation of the relationship between mass and speed in animals, Garland (1983) collected information from published articles on these two variables for a large number of different species. These measurements are given below for a variety of four-footed rodents. (The common names of the species are taken from Corbet & Hill (1986).) Notice that the measurements are not all recorded to the same level of accuracy since the results have been collated from the work of a number of different scientists.

The data are used in rp.cartoons.

References

Bowman, A.W. & Robinson, D.R. (1990). Introduction to Regression and Analysis of Variance: a computer illustrated text. Bristol: Adam Hilger.

Garland, T. (1983). The relation between maximal running speed and body mass in terrestrial animals. Journal of the Zoological Society of London, 199, 155-170.

Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. (1986). A World List of Mammalian Species. 2nd edition. London: British Museum, Natural History.

rpanel: Simple interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package. Journal of Statistical Software, 17, issue 9.

Examples

if (interactive()) {
   data(rodent)
   attach(rodent)
   rp.regression(log(Mass), log(Speed))
   }

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