Age and length of spot.
Ages (from otoliths) and lengths of Virginia Spot (Leiostomus xanthurus).
A data frame of 403 observations on the following 2 variables:
Measured total lengths (in inches)
Ages assigned from examination of otoliths
Final length measurements were simulated by adding a uniform error to the value at the beginning of the length category.
Growth
von Bertalanffy
Extracted from Table 1 in Chapter 8 (Spot) of the VMRC Final Report on Finfish Ageing, 2002 by the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University.
Used in vbFuns, vbStarts, and nlsTracePlot examples. Also see SpotVA2 in FSAdata for related data.
str(SpotVA1) head(SpotVA1) plot(tl~age,data=SpotVA1)
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