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data.cars: Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars

Description

The data give the speed of cars and the distances taken to stop. The data were recorded in the 1920s.

Usage

data.cars

Arguments

Format

A data frame of 50 observations with the following two variables:

speedspeed (in miles per hour).
diststopping distance (in foot).

Details

In Auer et al. (2024, Chaps. 5, 6, 7 & 16) the data are used to illustrate the simple regression model and the consequences of truncated data.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2024): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).