Analysis of Biological Data


Teaching

Datasets

Suggestions

Corrections

Roberts&Co.

Orders


Here are the data sets used in The Analysis of Biological Data in chapter 14, in .csv (comma-separated) format. Most data sets used in the book are grabbed from graphs and tables in papers, and the values may not be exact.

Examples:

Example 12.2: Blackbird testosterone
----Hasselquist, D., J. A. Marsh, P. W. Sherman, and J. C. Wingfield. 1999. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45: 167–175.

Example 12.3: Horned lizards
----Young, A. J., et al. 2006. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103: 12005–12010.

Example 12.4: Brook trout/chinook
----Levin, P. S., S. Achord, B. E. Fiest, and R. W. Zabel. 2002. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 269: 1663–1670.

Problems:

Question 12.2: No Smoking Day
----reference.

Question 12.3:Iguanas
----reference.

Question 12.5:Monogamy and Testes
----reference.

Question 12.9: Cichlids
----reference.

Question 12.10: Tobacco
----reference.

Question 12.11: "Will"s and presidents
----reference.

Question 12.13: Ostrich temperatures
----reference.

Question 12.15: Primate WPCs
----reference.

Question 12.16: Stalkie eyespan
----reference.

Question 12.19: Electric fish
----reference.

Question 12.23: Weddell seal dives
----reference.