basketball: Basketball Data
In Flury: Data Sets from Flury, 1997

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An experiment conducted on April 18th 1996 at Bryan Park, Bloomington, Indiana. These data record the number of successes within six attempts to hit a basketball from the distance recorded

1	data(basketball)

'basketball' is a data frame with 20 observations on the following 5 variables.

Distance: Distance from the hoop (feet)
Steve: Steve's score
Andy: Andy's Score
Chris: Chris' Score
Bernard: Bernard's Score (attempts abandoned after 10 feet)

Further details on the experiment are given in Flury (1997), Table 7.5.4 (page 532)

Flury, B.D. (1997) "A First Course in Multivariate Statistics", Springer NY

data(basketball)
## Not run: 
bb <- glm(cbind(Andy, 6-Andy) ~ sqrt(Distance),
family = binomial, data = basketball)
with(basketball, (plot(Distance, Andy/6, main = "Andy's Success Rate") ))
lines(basketball$Distance, predict(bb, type = "response"))
## End(Not run)