pottery: Romano-British Pottery Data

In HSAUR3: A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R (3rd Edition)

Romano-British Pottery Data

Description

Chemical composition of Romano-British pottery.

Usage

data("pottery")

Format

A data frame with 45 observations on the following 9 chemicals.

Al2O3

aluminium trioxide.

Fe2O3

iron trioxide.

MgO

magnesium oxide.

CaO

calcium oxide.

Na2O

natrium oxide.

K2O

calium oxide.

TiO2

titanium oxide.

MnO

mangan oxide.

BaO

barium oxide.

kiln

site at which the pottery was found.

Details

The data gives the chemical composition of specimens of Romano-British pottery, determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry, for nine oxides.

Source

A. Tubb and N. J. Parker and G. Nickless (1980), The analysis of Romano-British pottery by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Archaeometry, 22, 153–171.

Examples

  data("pottery", package = "HSAUR3")
  plot(pottery)

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