8.2.45.12 octave.dataset.ChickWeight

Static Method: out = ChickWeight ()

Weight versus age of chicks on different diets

Format

weight

a numeric vector giving the body weight of the chick (gm).

Time

a numeric vector giving the number of days since birth when the measurement was made.

Chick

an ordered factor with levels 18 < ... < 48 giving a unique identifier for the chick. The ordering of the levels groups chicks on the same diet together and orders them according to their final weight (lightest to heaviest) within diet.

Diet

a factor with levels 1, ..., 4 indicating which experimental diet the chick received.

Source

Crowder, M. and Hand, D. (1990). Analysis of Repeated Measures. London: Chapman and Hall. (example 5.3)

Hand, D. and Crowder, M. (1996), Practical Longitudinal Data Analysis. London: Chapman and Hall. (table A.2)

Pinheiro, J. C. and Bates, D. M. (2000) Mixed-effects Models in S and S-PLUS. New York: Springer.

Examples

t = octave.dataset.ChickWeight

octave.examples.coplot (t, "Time", "weight", "Chick");