McClave_Sincich {LSTbook}

Data from McClave-Sincich Statistics 11/e

Description

These are relatively small data frames used for exercises

Usage

Clock_auction

Geography_journals

PGA_index

Dowsing

Format

Clock_auction: Prices for grandfather clocks sold in auction

• Sales price for the clock

• Age of the clock

• Number of bidders for the clock

Geography_journals: Prices for geography journals, c. 2005

• journal name of journal

• cost for a one-year subscription

• jif journal impact factor

• cites number of citations of the journal in the past five years

• rpi relative price index

PGA_index: Driving distance, accuracy, and a derived index from the PGA tour

• player name of the player

• dist driving distance in yards

• accuracy percent of drives that land in the fairway

• index an index score for ranking players.

Dowsing: Locations identified by dowsers in an experiment

• trial just the row number

• subject identifying number assigned to the subject

• pipe location of the flowing-water pipe along a 10-meter line (decimeters)

• guess the dowser's guess of the location of the pipe in that trial (decimeters)

Source

StatCrunch