lengthguesses {MPV}

Length Guesses Data

Description

The lengthguesses list consists of 2 numeric vectors, one giving the metric-converted length guesses (in feet) of an auditorium whose actual length (in meters) was 13.1m, and the other containing the length guesses of 69 others (in meters).

Usage

data(lengthguesses)

Format

This list contains the following columns:

imperial

a numeric vector of 69 student guesses as to the length of an auditorium using the imperial system, converted to meters.

metric

a numeric vector of 44 student guesses as to the length of an auditorium using the metric system.

Source

Hills, M. and the M345 Course Team (1986) M345 Statistical Methods, Unit 1: Data, distributions and uncertainty, Milton Keynes: The Open University. Tables 2.1 and 2.4.

References

Hand, D.J., Daly, F., Lunn, A.D., McConway, K.J. and Ostrowski, E. (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples

with(lengthguesses, t.test(imperial, metric))