This repository contains the R code used for the answer in Statistical method for characterizing the relationship between body mass and metabolic rate. The purpose of this exercise was to investigate whether fitting either a linear model to log-transformed data or a non-linear model directly to the un-transformed data is more appropriate, as well as for me to start learning the R language.
The data used were acquired from Kolokotrones et al. 2010 who originally took them from McNab (2008).
The final figure was put together in Inkscape.
- Kolokotrones, T., Van Savage, Deeds, E. J., & Fontana, W. (2010). Curvature in metabolic scaling. Nature, 464:7289, 753–756. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08920
- McNab, B.K. (2008). An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 151:1, 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.05.008.