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Name:

Measurements of Cuckoo Eggs

Description:

Lengths of cuckoo eggs laid in other birds' nests

Variables:

A data frame with 120 observations on the following 3 variables.

Bird	Type of bird nest: mdw_pipit (meadow pipit), tree_pipit,
	hedge_sparrow, robin, wagtail, or wren
Length	Cuckoo egg length (in mm)

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Rows:

120

Columns:

Files:

Measurements of Cuckoo Eggs_1064_41.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Downloaded from DASL at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/cuckoodat.html

References

"The Egg of Cuculus Canorus. An Enquiry into the Dimensions of the Cuckoo's Egg and the Relation of the Variations to the Size of the Eggs of the Foster-Parent, with Notes on Coloration", by Oswald H. Latter, Biometrika, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan., 1902), pp. 164-176.

R Dataset Upload:

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

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Measurements_of_Cuckoo_Eggs_1064_41.csv")