chimpanzeesDF dataset

Data from behavior trials in a captive group of chimpanzees, housed in Lousiana. From Silk et al. 2005. Nature 437:1357-1359 and further popularized in McElreath, Richard. Statistical rethinking: A Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan. CRC press, 2020. Experiment

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  • Maintainer: Adam Fleischhacker
  • License: MIT + file LICENSE
  • Last published: 2025-09-12

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 504
  • Number of columns: 9
  • Class: tbl_df, tbl, data.frame

Column names and types

  • actor:integer
  • recipient:integer
  • condition:integer
  • block:integer
  • trial:integer
  • prosoc_left:integer
  • chose_prosoc:integer
  • pulled_left:integer
  • treatment:character