tacks {BayesGOF}

Rolling Tacks Data

Description

An experiment that requires a common thumbtack to be "flipped" n=9 times. Out of these total number of flips, y is the total number of times that the thumbtack landed point up.

Usage

data("tacks")

Format

A data frame of (y_i, n_i) for i = 1,...,320.

y

number of times a thumbtack landed point up in the i^{th} trial

n

total number of flips for the thumbtack in the i^{th} trial

Source

Beckett, L. and Diaconis, P., 1994. "Spectral analysis for discrete longitudinal data," Advances in Mathematics, 103(1), pp. 107-128.