On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the Depredations data set which pertains to Minnesota Wolf Depredation Data. The Depredations data set is found in the car R package. You can load the Depredations data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Depredations"). This will load the data into a variable called Depredations. If R says the Depredations data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("car") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Depredations R data set. The size of this file is about 7,297 bytes.

Minnesota Wolf Depredation Data

Description

Wolf depredations of livestock on Minnesota farms, 1976-1998.

Usage

Depredations

Format

A data frame with 434 observations on the following 5 variables.

longitude

longitude of the farm

latitude

latitude of the farm

number

number of depredations 1976-1998

early

number of depredations 1991 or before

late

number of depredations 1992 or later

References

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.

Harper, Elizabeth K. and Paul, William J. and Mech, L. David and Weisberg, Sanford (2008), Effectiveness of Lethal, Directed Wolf-Depredation Control in Minnesota, Journal of Wildlife Management, 72, 3, 778-784. http://dx.doi.org/10.2193/2007-273

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.