Tips {reshape}

Tipping data

Description

One waiter recorded information about each tip he received over a period of a few months working in one restaurant. He collected several variables:

• tip in dollars,

• bill in dollars,

• sex of the bill payer,

• whether there were smokers in the party,

• day of the week,

• time of day,

• size of the party.

In all he recorded 244 tips. The data was reported in a collection of case studies for business statistics (Bryant & Smith 1995).

Usage

data(tips)

Format

A data frame with 244 rows and 7 variables

References

Bryant, P. G. and Smith, M (1995) Practical Data Analysis: Case Studies in Business Statistics. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin Publishing: