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Sample Data: Animal Weights

Source Notebook

Brain and body weights for 28 animal species

Originator: P. J. Rousseeuw and A. M. Leroy

(3 columns, 28 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Sample Data: Animal Weights"]
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View the data:

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ResourceData["Sample Data: Animal Weights"]
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Visualization

Compare animals with brains weighing over 600 grams:

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With[{weights = ResourceData["Sample Data: Animal Weights"][ Select[#BrainWeight > Quantity[600, "grams"] &]]}, BarChart[Sort@weights[All, "BrainWeight"], ChartLabels -> Normal@weights[All, "Species"], AxesLabel -> Automatic]]
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Wolfram Research, "Sample Data: Animal Weights" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.43616.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: Robust Regression and Outlier Detection
  • Creator: P. J. Rousseeuw and A. M. Leroy
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Date: 1987
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research