mile: World records for the mile run

In alr4: Data to Accompany Applied Linear Regression 4th Edition

Description

World record times for the mile run, 1861–2003.

Format

A data frame with 46 observations:

Year

Year in which the record was set

Time

Running time, in seconds

Name

Name of person setting the record

Country

Country of residence of the record setter

Place

Place the record was set

Gender

Gender of the record holder

Source

Data source: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~sut/eng/

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

Examples

head(mile)

Example output

Loading required package: car
Loading required package: carData
Loading required package: effects
Registered S3 methods overwritten by 'lme4':
  method                          from
  cooks.distance.influence.merMod car 
  influence.merMod                car 
  dfbeta.influence.merMod         car 
  dfbetas.influence.merMod        car 
lattice theme set by effectsTheme()
See ?effectsTheme for details.
  Year  Time            Name Country Place Gender
1 1861 286.0     N.S. Greene     IRL  <NA>   Male
2 1862 273.0   George Farran     IRL  <NA>   Male
3 1868 269.8 Walter Chinnery     GBR  <NA>   Male
4 1868 268.8   William Gibbs     GBR  <NA>   Male
5 1873 268.6  Charles Gunton     GBR  <NA>   Male
6 1874 266.0    Walter Slade     GBR  <NA>   Male

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