AppalachianSpecCap: Well characteristics

In USGS-R/smwrData: Example hydrologic data to support statistical methods in water resources

Well characteristics

Description

Natural logarithms of specific capacity of wells in four rock types within the Appalachian Mountain region of Pennsylvania.

Usage

AppalachianSpecCap

Format

Data frame with 200 rows and 2 columns

Name	Type	Description
LogSpecCap	numeric	Natural log of the specific capacity
RockType	factor	Type of rock

Source

Appendix C7 in Helsel and Hirsch (2002).

References

Helsel, D.R., and Hirsch, R.M., 2002, Statistical methods in water resources: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, book 4, chap. A3, 522 p.

Examples

data(AppalachianSpecCap)
# Create simple boxplots by Rock type
with(AppalachianSpecCap, boxplot(split(LogSpecCap, RockType), range=0))

USGS-R/smwrData documentation built on Oct. 18, 2022, 9:56 a.m.