fisherB1: B.1 Arrival times at an intensive care unit

In circular: Circular Statistics

Description

Arrival time on a 24-hour clock of 254 patients at an intensive care unit, over a period of about 12 months.

Usage

data(fisherB1)
data(fisherB1c)

Format

fisherB1 is a vector of 254 observations (in the format hours.minutes). fisherB1c contains the same observations in a circular objects (minutes are expressed as decimals).

Source

Cox, D.R. and Lewis, P.A.W. (1966) The Statistical Analysis of Series of Events. London : Methuen & CO. Ltd. pp. 254-255

See Also

N.I. Fisher (1993) Statistical analysis of circular data. Cambridge University Press. Pag. 239.

Examples

data(fisherB1c)
par(mfcol=c(1,2))
plot(fisherB1c, main="Clock 24", shrink=1.5)
plot(fisherB1c, template="clock12", main="Clock 12", shrink=1.5)

Example output

Attaching package: 'circular'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    sd, var

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