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Data on top speeds measured on a laboratory race track for two species of lizards: Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) and Sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus).
lizard_run
A data frame with 48 observations on the following 3 variables.
Top speed of lizard, meters per second.
Common name: Western fence lizard
and Sagebrush lizard
.
Scientific name (Genus and species): Sceloporus occidentalis
and Sceloporus graciosus
.
Adolph, S. C. 1987. Physiological and behavioral ecology of the lizards Sceloporus occidentalis and Sceloporus graciosus. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Top speed by species ggplot(lizard_run, aes(x = top_speed, color = common_name, fill = common_name)) + geom_density(alpha = 0.5) # Top speed summary statistics by species lizard_run %>% group_by(common_name) %>% summarise( n = n(), mean = mean(top_speed), sd = sd(top_speed) )