hills: Record Times in Scottish Hill Races

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Record Times in Scottish Hill Races

Description

The record times in 1984 for 35 Scottish hill races.

Usage

hills

Format

The components are:

dist

distance in miles (on the map).

climb

total height gained during the route, in feet.

time

record time in minutes.

Source

A.C. Atkinson (1986) Comment: Aspects of diagnostic regression analysis. Statistical Science 1, 397–402.

[A.C. Atkinson (1988) Transformations unmasked. Technometrics 30, 311–318 “corrects” the time for Knock Hill from 78.65 to 18.65. It is unclear if this based on the original records.]

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

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