R/parking.R

#' Territoriality in Parking
#'
#' A study of how long it takes a driver to vacate his/her 
#' spot in a parking lot.
#'
#'
#' @name parking
#' @docType data
#' @format A data frame with 237 observations on the following 12 variables.
#' \describe{ \item{confcar}{The type of car that was waiting for the parking 
#' spot (or that just drove by).  Either a Nissan Maxima, a Lexus 
#' or an Infinity Q45. The car is "confronting" the parked car, hence the
#' name of the variable.}
#' \item{sex}{Sex of the driver of the parked car.}
#' \item{race}{Race of the driver of the parked car.}
#' \item{num}{Number of people in the parked car (including the driver).}
#' \item{horn}{The waiting car either did not intrude on the parked car at all,
#' intruded only slightly by driving by, or stopped near the parking spot and
#' waited.  In that case the waiting car either honked the horn once, or did
#' not honk at all.}
#' \item{carval}{Book value of the parked car, in dollars.}
#' \item{month}{Month in which the incident occurred.}
#' \item{day}{Day of the week on which the incident occurred.}
#' \item{miltime}{Time at which the incident occurred, in military units.
#' For example, 1130 denotes 11:30AM, while 1350 denotes for 1:50PM.}
#' \item{time}{Time in seconds for the parked car to depart the parking
#' spot.}
#' \item{ccstatus}{Status of the waiting "confronting" car.  The Maxima
#' is considered a low-status car, whereas the Lexus and Infinity Q45 are
#' expensive, "high-status" cars.}
#' \item{valuediff}{Difference in value between the confronting car and the
#' parked car, in dollars.  The values of the confronting cars were s follows:
#' Maxima:  5200, Lexus:  43000, Infinity Q45:  57000.}
#'  }
#' @source "Territorial Defense in Parking Lots: Retaliation 
#' Against Waiting Drivers", B. Ruback and D. Juieng, Journal of Applied
#' Social Psychology, Volume 27, Issue 9, May 1997, pp. 821-834.
#' Provided by B. Ruback.
#' @note This is almost the orginal data.  B. Ruback indicates
#' (personal communication) that three observations are missing and
#' cannot be recovered at the present time.
#' @keywords datasets
#'
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