Moisture {BSDA}

Moisture content and depth of core sample for marine muds in eastern Louisiana

Description

Data for Exercise 9.32

Usage

Moisture

Format

A data frame/tibble with 16 observations on four variables

depth

a numeric vector

moisture

g of water per 100 g of dried sediment

lnmoist

a numeric vector

depthsq

a numeric vector

Source

Davis, J. C. (1986), Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, 2d. ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 177, 185.

References

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

Examples

plot(moisture ~ depth, data = Moisture)
model <- lm(moisture ~ depth, data = Moisture)
abline(model, col = "red")
plot(resid(model) ~ depth, data = Moisture)
rm(model)