InsectSprays              package:base              R Documentation

Effectiveness of Insect Sprays

Description:

     The counts of insects in agricultural experimental units treated
     with different insecticides.

Usage:

     data(InsectSprays)

Format:

     A data frame with 72 observations on 2 variables.

       [,1]  count  numeric  Insect count
       [,2]  spray  factor   The type of spray

Source:

     Beall, G., (1942) The Transformation of data from entomological
     field experiments, _Biometrika_, *29*, 243-262.

References:

     McNeil, D. (1977) _Interactive Data Analysis_. New York: Wiley.

Examples:

     require(stats)
     data(InsectSprays)
     boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays,
             xlab = "Type of spray", ylab = "Insect count",
             main = "InsectSprays data", varwidth = TRUE, col = "lightgray")
     fm1 <- aov(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays)
     summary(fm1)
     opar <- par(mfrow = c(2,2), oma = c(0, 0, 1.1, 0))
     plot(fm1)
     fm2 <- aov(sqrt(count) ~ spray, data = InsectSprays)
     summary(fm2)
     plot(fm2)
     par(opar)

