evidence (version 0.8.10)

lightspeed: Simon Newcomb's measurements of the speed of light

Description

Simon Newcom's measured in the late 1900's the time it took light to cover a certain distance. The data are reported in Stigler(1977) and have been widely used since to illustrate statistical inference.

Usage

data(lightspeed)

Format

A vector with 66 observations of the travel time of light.

References

van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(lightspeed)
qqnorm(lightspeed)
qqline(lightspeed)
# }