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Length measurements of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) from Boomer Lake, Oklahoma, in 1974.

Format

A data frame of 447 observations on the following 1 variable:

tl

measured total length (cm)

Source

From McNew, R.W. and R.C. Summerfelt. 1978. Evaluation of a maximum-likelihood estimator for analysis of length-frequency distributions. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 107:730-736. Data was simulated (uniform distribution of values within length bin) from summarized length frequencies in http://fishbase.org/. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Length Frequency

  • Size Structure

  • PSD

Examples

data(LMBassBL)
str(LMBassBL)
#> 'data.frame':	447 obs. of  1 variable:
#>  $ tl: int  87 90 99 99 98 114 109 112 112 111 ...
head(LMBassBL)
#>    tl
#> 1  87
#> 2  90
#> 3  99
#> 4  99
#> 5  98
#> 6 114
hist(LMBassBL$tl,main="")