data.cars {desk}

Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars

Description

The data give the speed of cars and the distances taken to stop. The data were recorded in the 1920s.

Usage

data.cars

Format

A data frame of 50 observations with the following two variables:

speed	speed (in miles per hour).
dist	stopping distance (in foot).

Details

In Auer et al. (2023, Chaps. 5, 6, 7 & 16) the data are used to illustrate the simple regression model and the consequences of truncated data.

Source

R package datasets (object cars). Originally published in: Ezekiel, M. (1930): Methods of Correlation Analysis, Wiley.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).