A toy data set that can be used with the sptotal package. In this example, the true counts are actually uncorrelated, the covariates are generated as uniform random variables, and the sites fall on a regular grid.

exampledataset

Format

A data frame with 40 rows and 7 variables:

counts

counts, with NA values for unsampled sites

pred1

a possible predictor

pred2

a second possible predictor

xcoords

coordinates on the x-axis

ycoords

coordinates on the y-axis

dummyvar

an extra variable

areavar

Variable for the area of each plot

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