# Shustack, D.P. and Rodewald, A.D. (2011) Nest predation reduces benefits to early clutch initiation in northern cardinals Cardinalis cardinalis. J. Avian Biol. 42: 204􏰣209. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05231.x d<-read.csv("fledge_number.csv") par(mfrow=c(2,2)) plot(d,xlab="Clutch initiation date",ylab="Number of fledglings",pch=17,col="blue") freq<-table(d[,2]) #freq barplot(freq,xlab="Number of fledglings",ylab="Frequency") mean(d[,2]) var(d[,2]) install.packagres("vcd") library(vcd) gf<-goodfit(freq,type= "poisson",method= "MinChisq") summary(gf) plot(gf, type = "standing", xlab="Number of fledged chicks",ylab="Frequency", scale = "raw") plot(gf, type = "hanging", xlab="Number of fledged chicks",ylab="Frequency", scale = "raw") model_card<-glm(d$fledged ~ d$date,family="poisson") summary(model_card) plot(d,xlab="Clutch initiation date",ylab="Number of fledglings",pch=17,col="blue") abline(model_card,col="orange",lwd=2)