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Since their use by R.A. Fisher (Fisher, 1966, Chapter 3), this small set of data, chosen from more than eighty such sets discussed in Charles Darwin’s book (Darwin, 1878), has perhaps been subjected to more analysis by statisticians than any other such set. While Fisher quotes at length from Darwin’s book the amount of background detail he gives is less than proportionate to the detailed statistical discussion that has been given to the data. Darwin was interested in the question of cross-fertilization versus the self fertilization of plants. Darwin stated:l
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Andrews, D.F., Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Darwin’s Data on Growth Rates of Plants. In: Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5098-2_3
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