R’s built-in beavers dataset
Matt Dray
26 September 2020
Results
What does the distribution of body temperatures look like?
And what are the mean body temperature values?
| id | mean | sd | min |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 36.86219 | 0.1934217 | 36.33 |
| B | 37.59670 | 0.4467889 | 36.58 |
About
From the ?beavers help page:
Reynolds (1994) describes a small part of a study of the long-term temperature dynamics of beaver Castor canadensis in north-central Wisconsin. Body temperature was measured by telemetry every 10 minutes for four females, but data from a one period of less than a day for each of two animals is used there.
Citation
The work can be cited as follows:
P. S. Reynolds (1994) Time-series analyses of beaver body temperatures. Chapter 11 of Lange, N., Ryan, L., Billard, L., Brillinger, D., Conquest, L. and Greenhouse, J. eds (1994) Case Studies in Biometry. New York: John Wiley and Sons.