Filtering performances of seven brands of water filters, measured as the number of bacterial colonies growing on each device.
Usage
data(waterfilter)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.
brand
A factor with 7 levels giving the brands of water filters.
colonies
A numeric vector giving the number of bacterial colonies found on each filter.
Details
A high number of bacterial colonies on a filter corresponds to good performance of this particular device. Note that the dataset is unbalanced (n=2 for brands 4 and 7, n=3 for all other brands).
References
Westfall, P. H., Tobias, R. D., Wolfinger, R. D. (2011) Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using SAS, Second Edition. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, pp. 592--593.