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Name:

Fruit Fly Sexual Activity and Longevity

Description:

Sexual activity and lifetimes of fruit flies

Variables:

A data frame with 125 observations on the following 8 variables.

ID	a numeric vector
Partners	Number of female partners: 0, 1, or 8
Type	0=pregnant, 1=virgin, 9=none
Longevity	Lifespan (in days)
Thorax	Length of thorax (in mm)
Sleep	Percent of day sleeping
Treatment	1 pregnant, 1 virgin, 8 pregnant, 8 virgin, or none

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Rows:

125

Columns:

Files:

Fruit Fly Sexual Activity and Longevity_1000_79.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

The data are given as part of the data archive on the Journal of Statistics Education website and can be found on the page
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.htm.

References

Hanley and Shapiro, (1994) "Sexual Activity and the Lifespan of Male Fruitflies: A Dataset That Gets Attention," Journal of Statistics Education v.2, n.1
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v2n1/datasets.hanley.html

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Fruit_Fly_Sexual_Activity_and_Longevity_1000_79.csv")