Mammals Dataset

A dataset with average brain and body weights for 62 species of land mammals.

Fields:

body: body weight in kg.

brain: brain weight in g.

name: Common name of species.

Source

Weisberg, S. (1985) Applied Linear Regression. 2nd edition. Wiley, pp. 144–5.

Selected from: Allison, T. and Cicchetti, D. V. (1976) Sleep in mammals: ecological and constitutional correlates. Science 194, 732–734.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.