Parasite abundance in insular feral cats
Toxocara cati abundance in feral cats living on Kerguelen island.
data(toxocara)
toxocara is a data frame with 1 column (number: number of parasites in digestive tract)
Fromont, E., Morvilliers, L., Artois, M., Pontier, D. 2001. Parasite richness and abundance in insular and mainland feral cats. Parasitology, 123, 143-151.
# (1) load of data # data(toxocara) # (2) description and plot of data # number <- toxocara$number descdist(number,discrete=TRUE,boot=1000) plotdist(number,discrete=TRUE) # (3) fit of a Poisson distribution to data # fitp <- fitdist(number,"pois") summary(fitp) plot(fitp) # (4) fit of a negative binomial distribution to data # fitnb <- fitdist(number,"nbinom") summary(fitnb) plot(fitnb)
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