lynx                  package:boot                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This is the same data as contained in the Splus data set of the
     same name  except that the time series is now of class `"rts"'. 
     The time series contains 114 observations.

     The data give the annual number of lynx trappings in the Mackenzie
     River District of North-West Canada for the period 1821 to 1934.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     The data were obtained from

     Hand, D.J., Daly, F., Lunn, A.D., McConway, K.J. and Ostrowski, E.
     (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets, Chapman and Hall.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their
     Application. Cambridge University Press.

     Elton, C. and Nicholson, M. (1942) The ten-year cycle in numbers
     of lynx in  Canada. J. of Animal Ecology, 11, 215-244.

