Ages assigned to the scales and otoliths of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis).
Format
A data frame of 451 observations on the following 2 variables:
- scale
Ages assigned to scales
- otolith
Ages assigned to otoliths
Source
From Figure 6 in Chapter 10 (Striped Bass) of the VMRC Final Report on Finfish Ageing, 2003 by the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University. CSV file
See also
StripedBass4 and StripedBass5.
Examples
data(StripedBass6)
str(StripedBass6)
#> 'data.frame': 451 obs. of 2 variables:
#> $ scale : int 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
#> $ otolith: int 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
head(StripedBass6)
#> scale otolith
#> 1 2 2
#> 2 2 2
#> 3 2 2
#> 4 2 2
#> 5 2 2
#> 6 2 2
plot(scale~otolith,data=StripedBass6)
xtabs(~otolith+scale,data=StripedBass6)
#> scale
#> otolith 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18
#> 2 47 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 3 2 22 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 4 0 1 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 5 0 0 11 31 10 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 6 0 0 1 4 8 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 7 0 0 2 5 15 65 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 8 0 0 0 0 3 7 16 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 9 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 10 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 33 31 7 1 1 0 0 0 0
#> 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 5 4 2 0 0 0 0 0
#> 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 6 0 0 0 0 0
#> 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 0
#> 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 2 2 1 0 0
#> 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
#> 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
#> 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
#> 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0