lightspeed {evidence}

Simon Newcomb's measurements of the speed of light

Description

Simon Newcom's measured in the late 1900's the time it took light to cover a certain distance. The data are reported in Stigler(1977) and have been widely used since to illustrate statistical inference.

Usage

data(lightspeed)

Format

A vector with 66 observations of the travel time of light.

Source

Stigler, S.M. (1977) Do robust estimators work with real data? Annals of Statistics 5, 1055–1098.

References

van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.

Examples

data(lightspeed)
qqnorm(lightspeed)
qqline(lightspeed)