Track {BSDA}

National Olympic records for women in several races

Description

Data for Exercises 2.97, 5.115, and 9.62

Usage

Track

Format

A data frame with 55 observations on eight variables

country

athlete's country

100m

time in seconds for 100 m

200m

time in seconds for 200 m

400m

time in seconds for 400 m

800m

time in minutes for 800 m

1500m

time in minutes for 1500 m

3000m

time in minutes for 3000 m

marathon

time in minutes for marathon

Source

Dawkins, B. (1989), "Multivariate Analysis of National Track Records," The American Statistician, 43(2), 110-115.

References

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

Examples

plot(`200m` ~ `100m`, data = Track)
plot(`400m` ~ `100m`, data = Track)
plot(`400m` ~ `200m`, data = Track)
cor(Track[, 2:8])