deflection {UsingR}

Deflection under load

Description

The data collected in a calibration experiment consisting of a known load, applied to the load cell, and the corresponding deflection of the cell from its nominal position.

Usage

data(deflection)

Format

A data frame with 40 observations on the following 2 variables.

Deflection

a numeric vector

Load

a numeric vector

Source

From an example in Engineering Statistics Handbook from http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/

Examples

data(deflection)
res = lm(Deflection ~ Load, data = deflection)
plot(Deflection ~ Load, data = deflection)
abline(res)			# looks good?
plot(res)