catHughes {spatstat}R Documentation

Hughes' Cat Retina Data

Description

Austin Hughes' data: a point pattern of ganglion cells in the retina of a cat. A marked point pattern.

Usage

data(catHughes)

Format

An object of class "ppp" representing the point pattern of cell locations. Entries include
x Cartesian x-coordinate of cell
y Cartesian y-coordinate of cell
marks factor with levels 0 and 1 indicating ``off'' and ``on'' cells respectively.

See ppp.object for details of the format.

Notes

Austin Hughes' data: a point pattern of ganglion cells in the retina of a cat. 152 ``on'' cells and 142 ``off'' cells in a rectangle with dimensions 1.6065 by 1.0 where the unit of measurement is approximately 1 mm.

Source

Peter Diggle, personal communication


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