R: Mandible lengths of male and female golden jackals

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## Mandible lengths of male and female golden jackals

### Description

Mandible lengths (in mm) for male and female golden jackals (Canis aureus) from a collection of specimens in the British Museum of Natural History, London, UK.

### Usage

    data(jackal)

### Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

`Length`

  a numeric vector

`Sex`

  a factor with levels `Male` `Female`

### Source

The data were manually transcribed from Manly (2007).

### References

Higham, C.F.W., Kijngam, A., and Manly, B.F.J. (1980) An analysis of prehistoric canid remains from Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science 7:149-165.

Manly, B.F.J. (2007) Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology. Third Edition. Chapman \& Hall/CRC, Boca Raton.

### Examples

    data(jackal)
    str(jackal)

    ## boxplot of mandible length vs sex
    plot(Length ~ Sex, data = jackal)

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