books.df: Books Data
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Books Data
Description
This data consists of 50 sentence lengths from each of 8 books. The books
“Disclosure” and “Rising Sun” were written by Michael
Crichton, whilst the others “Four Past Midnight”, “The Dark
Half”, “ Eye of the Dragon”, “The Shining”, “The Stand”
and “The Tommy-Knockers” were written by Stephen King. The pages and
sentences were chosen using a multistage design where the pages were
selected at random, and then sentences within each page were selected at
random. These data were collected by James Curran.
Format
The data frame consists of 400 observations on 2 variables.
- length
Integer sentence length, measured as the number of words in the sentence.
- book
Factor giving the book from which the sentence was sampled
(4.Past.Mid, Dark.Half, Disclosure, Eye.Drag, Rising.Sun, Shining, Stand,
T.Knock).
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Books Data
Description
This data consists of 50 sentence lengths from each of 8 books. The books “Disclosure” and “Rising Sun” were written by Michael Crichton, whilst the others “Four Past Midnight”, “The Dark Half”, “ Eye of the Dragon”, “The Shining”, “The Stand” and “The Tommy-Knockers” were written by Stephen King. The pages and sentences were chosen using a multistage design where the pages were selected at random, and then sentences within each page were selected at random. These data were collected by James Curran.
Format
The data frame consists of 400 observations on 2 variables.
- length
Integer sentence length, measured as the number of words in the sentence.
- book
Factor giving the book from which the sentence was sampled (4.Past.Mid, Dark.Half, Disclosure, Eye.Drag, Rising.Sun, Shining, Stand, T.Knock).
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