olympic: Olympic sprint finals data

In lmreg: Data and Functions Used in Linear Models and Regression with R: An Integrated Approach

Description

Times recorded by winners of men's olympic sprint finals in different categories from 1900 to 1988 (Lunn and McNeil, 1991).

Usage

data(olympic)

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 6 variables.

Year

Olympic year

X100m

Winner's time (in seconds) for 100 meters sprint

X200m

Winner's time (in seconds) for 200 meters sprint

X400m

Winner's time (in seconds) for 400 meters sprint

X800m

Winner's time (in seconds) for 800 meters sprint

X1500m

Winner's time (in seconds) for 1500 meters sprint

Details

There are three missing years in the data; 1916, 1940 and 1944, when world wars prevented the olympic games from being held.

Source

Lunn, A.D. and McNeil, D.R. (1991) Computer-Interactive Data Analysis, Wiley, Chichester.

Examples

data(olympic)
head(olympic) 

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