manilius

In 1750, Tobias Mayer collected data on various landmarks on the moon in
order to determine its orbit. The data involving the position of the
Manilius crater resulted in a least squares like problem. The example is
discussed in Steven Stigler's History of Statistics.

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Books are "Practical Regression and ANOVA in R" on CRAN, "Linear Models with R" published 1st Ed. August 2004, 2nd Ed. July 2014 by CRC press, ISBN 9781439887332, and "Extending the Linear Model with R" published by CRC press in 1st Ed. December 2005 and 2nd Ed. March 2016, ISBN 9781584884248.

Julian Faraway

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Functions and Datasets for Books by Julian Faraway

manilius function

A data frame with 27 observations on the following 4 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>arc</code></dt>
<dd>an angle known as h in Stigler's notation</dd> <dt><code>sinang</code></dt>
<dd>the sin(g-k) where g and k are two angles in Stigler</dd> <dt><code>cosang</code></dt>
<dd>the cos(g-k) where g and k are two angles in Stigler</dd> <dt><code>group</code></dt>
<dd>one of three groups determined by Mayer</dd> 
</dl>

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Mayer's 1750 data on the Manilius crater on the moon — manilius

A data frame with 27 observations on the following 4 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>arc</code></dt>
<dd>an angle known as h in Stigler's notation</dd>

 <dt><code>sinang</code></dt>
<dd>the sin(g-k) where g and k are two angles in Stigler</dd>

 <dt><code>cosang</code></dt>
<dd>the cos(g-k) where g and k are two angles in Stigler</dd>

 <dt><code>group</code></dt>
<dd>one of three groups determined by Mayer</dd>

 
</dl>

manilius: Mayer's 1750 data on the Manilius crater on the moon

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