nym.2002 {UsingR}

Random sample of 2002 New York City Marathon finishers

Description

A random sample of finishers from the New York City Marathon.

Usage

data(nym.2002)

Format

A data frame with 1000 observations on the following 5 variables.

place

Place in the race

gender

What gender

age

Age on day of race

home

Indicator of hometown or nation

time

Time in minutes to finish

Details

Each year thousands of particpants line up to run the New York City Marathon. This list is a random sample from the finishers.

Source

From the New York City Road Runners web site http://www.nyrc.org

Examples

data(nym.2002)
with(nym.2002, cor(time,age))