glass {ismev}

Breaking Strengths of Glass Fibres

Description

A numeric vector containing breaking strengths of 63 glass fibres of length 1.5 centimetres, recorded under experimental conditions.

Usage

data(glass)

Format

A vector containing 63 observations.

Source

Smith, R. L. and Naylor, J. C. (1987) A comparison of maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimators for the three-parameter Weibull distribution. Applied Statistics 36, 358–396.

References

Coles, S. G. (2001) An Introduction to Statistical Modelling of Extreme Values. London: Springer.