Ages of Striped Bass assigned from scales and otoliths.

Description

Ages of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) assessed from heat-pressed scales and cracked-and-burnt otoliths.

Format

A data frame of 343 observations on the following 2 variables:

• ageO: Age assigned from examinaton of otoliths
• ageS: Age assigned from examination of scales

Topic(s)

• Age Comparison
• Age Precision
• Age Bias
• Ageing Error

Source

From Figure 6 in Chapter 10 (Striped Bass) of the VMRC Final Report on Finfish Ageing, 2000 by the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University.

Examples

data(StripedBass1)
str(StripedBass1)
head(StripedBass1)
plot(ageS~ageO,data=StripedBass1)
xtabs(~ageO+ageS,data=StripedBass1)