lightspeed.df: Michelson's speed of light data

lightspeed.dfR Documentation

Michelson's speed of light data

Description

Michelson's speed of light data

Usage

lightspeed.df

Format

a data.frame with 43 rows and 2 columns:

speed

The scaled speed of light measured in a single experiment. The scaling is the measurement minus 299,000 km/s. E.g. the first entry in the data.frame is 850, which is 299,850 km/s.

year

The year in which the experiment was conducted, either 1879 or 1882.

Source

Stigler, S. M. (1977), "Do robust estimators work with real data?", The Annals of Statistics 5:1055-1098.


jmcurran/jaggR documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 11:04 a.m.