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compositions (version 2.0-4)

Activity31: Activity patterns of a statistician for 20 days

Description

Proportion of a day in activity teaching, consulting, administrating, research, other wakeful activities and sleep for 20 days are given.

Usage

data(Activity31)

Arguments

Details

The activity of an academic statistician were divided into following six categories

teacteaching
consconsultation
admiadministration
reseresearch
wakeother wakeful activities
sleesleep

Data shows the proportions of the 24 hours devoted to each activity, recorded on each of 20 days, selected randomly from working days in alternate weeks, so as to avoid any possible carry-over effects, such as short-sleep day being compensated by make-up sleep on a succeeding day.

The six activity may be divided into two categories 'work' comprising activities 1,2,3,4: and 'leisure' comprising activities 5 and 6.

References

Aitchison: The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data, 1986, Data 31.