Loblolly                 package:nls                 R Documentation

Growth of Loblolly pine trees

Description:

     The `Loblolly' data frame has 84 rows and 3 columns of records of
     the growth of Loblolly pine trees.

Format:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     height a numeric vector of tree heights (ft).

     age a numeric vector of tree ages (yr).

     Seed an ordered factor indicating the seed source for the tree.
          The ordering is according to increasing maximum height.

Source:

     Kung, F. H. (1986), ``Fitting logistic growth curve with
     predetermined carrying capacity'', Proceedings of the Statistical
     Computing Section, American Statistical Association, 340-343.

     Pinheiro, J. C. and Bates, D. M. (2000) Mixed-effects Models in S
     and S-PLUS, Springer.

Examples:

     data(Loblolly)
     plot(height ~ age, data = Loblolly, subset = Seed == 329,
          xlab = "Tree age (yr)", las = 1,
          ylab = "Tree height (ft)",
          main = "Loblolly data and fitted curve (Seed 329 only)")
     fm1 <- nls(height ~ SSasymp(age, Asym, R0, lrc),
                data = Loblolly, subset = Seed == 329)
     summary(fm1)
     age <- seq(0, 30, len = 101)
     lines(age, predict(fm1, list(age = age)))

