King Crab Data

This is a description of the Kodiak Island king crab survey data, distributed
for the Data Analysis Exposition being sponsored by the Statistical Graphics
and Statistical Computing Sections at the 1990 American Statistical Society
Joint Statistical meetings in Anaheim.

Here is a quick inventory of the files and their sizes:

  File      Lines  Cols  Bytes  Contents
  -------   -----  ----  ------ ---------------------------------------------
  README      115    -   22672  text: 
  notice       56    -    3355  text: the published notice of the Exposition
  survey     3450   14  244950  the basic survey data
  kodiak     2687    2   48264  map coordinates for the Kodiak Island shoreline
  dstns      1845    5   40590  distributions of crab by size, year, category
  fleet        23    6     946  commercial fleet/catch/price data, by year
  catch        96    4    2112  commercial catch data, by year, district
  eggs         14    2     140  ave number of eggs per female, by year
  salinity     60    3     718  ocean salinity, by month
  celsius      68    3     741  ocean temperature, by month, in degrees celsius
  fullness   1170    7   37440  distributions of females by clutch fullness



To obtain more information about the survey or about obtaining the
data files send the messages "send README from crab" to
statlib@temper.stat.cmu.edu.  Please obtain the README file before
attempting to access the other files.