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BikeCommute: Bike Commute

Description

Commute times for two kinds of bicycle

Arguments

Format

A dataset with 56 observations on the following 9 variables.
  • Bike Type of material (Carbon or Steel)
  • Date Date of the bike commute as a string
  • DMY Date of the bike commute as a date object
  • Distance Length of commute (in miles)
  • Time Total commute time (hours:minutes:seconds)
  • Minutes Time converted to minutes
  • AvgSpeed Average speed during the ride (miles per hour)
  • TopSpeed Maximum speed (miles per hour)
  • Seconds Time converted to seconds
  • MonthStr Month MonthNum Numeric value of month
  • Month Month coded as one of 1Jan, 2Feb, 3Mar, 4Apr, 5May, 6June, or 7July,

Source

Thanks to Dr. Groves for providing his data.

Details

Data from a personal experiment to compare commuting time based on a randomized selection between two bicycles made of different materials.

References

"Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial," in British Medical Journal, BMJ 2010;341:c6801.