Tentative guesses:
Nothing else is standing out to me so I just threw some linear regression at it and added 1.22 times the standard deviation of the residual to be safe.
Abigail: 21.9 lb
Bertrand: 19.5 lb
Chartreuse: 25.4 lb
Dontanien: 21.8 lb
Espera: 19.1 lb
Flint: 7.3 lb
Gunther: 27.4 lb
Harold: 20.4 lb
Irene: 24.4 lb
Jacqueline: 21.0 lb
I completely ignored the greenish-gray turtles because His Malevolence didn’t have any and there weren’t that many of them in the data, I hope that wasn’t a mistake. It bothers me that I can’t figure out anything regarding nostril size. From a meta perspective, I feel like there wouldn’t be two irrelevant columns given that fangs was already redundant. Everything else was at least somewhat correlated with weight.
Initial observations characterizing the data
The PGFDA seems to treat all weapon types completely interchangeably. All weapon types appear equally often and with the same distribution, and there are no correlations between different weapon types or between weapon types and alien species in the past missions. The only tactical decision they make is to send more soldiers when there are more aliens.
The alien species also seem to be acting independently of each other. They each have different distributions in the number of individuals per encounter but each species shows up in about 100,000 encounters and there are no correlations between the presence of any alien species with any other.
Victory is somewhat correlated with number of soldiers which makes sense, but isn’t correlated with specific weapon or alien types. I would guess that each weapon is strong and weak against certain aliens, or maybe some weapons combinations synergize and others interfere with each other such that they all come out to the same average effectiveness when chosen at random like the PGFDA and AM are doing.