Iceberg {BSDA}

Number of icebergs sighted each month south of Newfoundland and south of the Grand Banks in 1920

Description

Data for Exercise 2.46 and 2.60

Usage

Iceberg

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on three variables

month

a character variable with abbreviated months of the year

Newfoundland

number of icebergs sighted south of Newfoundland

Grand Banks

number of icebergs sighted south of Grand Banks

Source

N. Shaw, Manual of Meteorology, Vol. 2 (London: Cambridge University Press 1942), 7; and F. Mosteller and J. Tukey, Data Analysis and Regression (Reading, MA: Addison - Wesley, 1977).

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

plot(Newfoundland ~ `Grand Banks`, data = Iceberg)
abline(lm(Newfoundland ~ `Grand Banks`, data = Iceberg), col = "blue")