R: Parasite abundance in insular feral cats

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## Parasite abundance in insular feral cats

### Description

Toxocara cati abundance in feral cats living on Kerguelen island.

### Usage

    data(toxocara)

### Format

`toxocara` is a data frame with 1 column (number: number of parasites in digestive tract)

### Source

Fromont, E., Morvilliers, L., Artois, M., Pontier, D. 2001. Parasite richness and abundance in insular and mainland feral cats. Parasitology, 123, 143-151.

### Examples

    # (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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