telephone: Telephone Data

In Rfit: Rank-Based Estimation for Linear Models

Telephone Data

Description

The number of telephone calls (in tens of millions) made in Belgium from 1950-1973.

Usage

data(telephone)

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 2 variables.

year

years since 1950 AD

calls

number of telephone calls in tens of millions

Source

Rousseeuw, P.J. and Leroy, A.M. (1987), Robust Regression and Outlier Detection, New York: Wiley.

References

Hettmansperger, T.P. and McKean J.W. (2011), Robust Nonparametric Statistical Methods, 2nd ed., New York: Chapman-Hall.

Examples

data(telephone)
plot(telephone)
abline(rfit(calls~year,data=telephone))

Rfit documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 5:59 p.m.