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