This page contains the supplementary material for a paper on allometric prediction of the body weight of dinosaurs [1], providing a refutation of the incorrect criticism of the "bias" inherent in traditional allometric procedures, by Packard et al.[2].
Downloads:
- Data:
- Mammals (mammals.txt)
- Dinosaurs (dinosaurs.txt)
- MATLAB code reproducing (almost exactly) the figures in the paper
- Script reproducing Fig 1 (figure1.m)
- Script reproducing Fig 2 (figure2.m)
- Script reproducing Fig 3 (figure3.m)
- Script reproducing Fig 4 (figure4.m)
- Preprocessed mammal data (mammals.dat)
- Preprocessed dinosaur data (dinosaurs.dat)
- Loss function for fitting non-linear regression model (loss.m)
- Zip file containing everything (code.zip)
References:
| [1] | G. C. Cawley and G. J. Janacek, On allometric equations for predicting body mass of dinosaurs, Journal of Zoology, vol. 280, no. 4, pp. 355-361, 2010. (doi) |
| [2] | G. C. Packard, T. J. Boardman and G. F. Birchard, Allometric equations for predicting the body mass of dinosaurs, Journal of Zoology, vol. 279, no. 1, pp. 102-110, September 2009. (doi) |
Research Team: Gavin Cawley, Gareth Janacek.
