CT: The Cow Temperature Data

In RSADBE: Data related to the book "R Statistical Application Development by Example"

Description

The data set is adapted from Velleman and Hoaglin (1984). The body temperature of a cow is measured at 6:30am on 75 consecutive days. We use this data set with the intent of explaining the concept of "data smooting". The data appears on page 165 where we have 30 days body temperature.

Usage

data(CT)

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following 2 variables.

Day

day number

Temperature

temperature at 6:30am

Source

The entire classic book of Velleman and Hoaglin is available at http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/78/2/A-B-C_of_EDA_040127.pdf

References

Velleman, P.F., and Hoaglin, D. (1984). Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis.

Examples

data(CT)
plot.ts(CT$Temperature,col="red",pch=1)

Example output

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