Brain and Body Weights for 28 Species

Description

Average brain and body weights for 28 species of land animals.

Usage

Animals

Format

body

body weight in kg.

brain

brain weight in g.

Note

The name Animals avoids conflicts with a system dataset animals in S-PLUS 4.5 and later.

Source

P. J. Rousseeuw and A. M. Leroy (1987) Robust Regression and Outlier Detection. Wiley, p. 57.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.