Brain and Body Weights for 28 Species

Description

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

Usage

data(Animals)

Format

body

body weight in kg

brain

brain weight in g

Note

The name Animals avoids conflicts with a system dataset in S-PLUS 4.5 and later.

Line 26, rats was missing in versions of MASS prior to 6.2pl003

Source

P. J. Rousseeuw and A. M. Leroy (1987) Robust Regression and Outlier Detection. Wiley, p. 57.