lightspeed {evidence} | R Documentation |
Simon Newcom's measured in the late 1900's the time it took light to cover a certain distance. The data are reported in Stigler(1977) and have been widely used since to illustrate statistical inference.
data(lightspeed)
A vector with 66 observations of the travel time of light.
Stigler, S.M. (1977) Do robust estimators work with real data? Annals of Statistics 5, 1055–1098.
van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.
data(lightspeed)
qqnorm(lightspeed)
qqline(lightspeed)