case0701: The Big Bang

In Sleuth2: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

Description

Hubble's initial data on 24 nebulae outside the Milky Way.

Usage

case0701

Format

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

Velocity

recession velocity (in kilometres per second)

Distance

distance from earth (in magaparsec)

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Hubble, E. (1929). A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among Extragalactic Nebulae, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 15: 168–173.

See Also

ex0727

Examples

str(case0701)
plot(case0701)

Example output

'data.frame':	24 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ Velocity: num  170 290 -130 -70 -185 -220 200 290 270 200 ...
 $ Distance: num  0.032 0.034 0.214 0.263 0.275 ...

Sleuth2 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:01 a.m.