newcomb: Newcomb's Measurements of the Passage Time of Light
Description
A numeric vector giving the Third Series of measurements of the
passage time of light recorded by Newcomb in 1882. The given values
divided by 1000 plus 24 give the time in millionths of a second for
light to traverse a known distance. The true value is now
considered to be 33.02.
Usage
newcomb
Arguments
source
S. M. Stigler (1973)
Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation
1885--1920.
Journal of the American Statistical Association68, 872--879.
R. G. Staudte and S. J. Sheather (1990)
Robust Estimation and Testing. Wiley.