On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the MothEggs data set which pertains to Moth Eggs. The MothEggs data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the MothEggs data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("MothEggs"). This will load the data into a variable called MothEggs. If R says the MothEggs data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the MothEggs R data set. The size of this file is about 397 bytes.

Moth Eggs

Description

Body size and eggs produced for a species of moths

Format

A dataset with 39 observations on the following 2 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

BodyMass	Log of body size measured in grams
Eggs	Number of eggs present

Details

Researchers were interested an association between body size and the number of eggs produced by a species of moths.

Source

We thank Professor Itagaki and his students for sharing this data from experiments on Manduca Sexta.

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.