vcd (version 0.1-3.5)

WomenQueue: Women in Queues

Description

Data from Jinkinson & Slater (1981) and Hoaglin & Tukey (1985) reporting the frequency distribution of females in 100 queues of length 10 in a London Underground station.

Usage

data(WomenQueue)

format

A 1-way table giving the number of women in 100 queues of length 10. The variable and its levels are rll{ No Name Levels 1 nWomen 0, 1, ..., 10 }

source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pp. 19-20.

References

D. C. Hoaglin & J. W. Tukey (1985), Checking the shape of discrete distributions. In D. C. Hoaglin, F. Mosteller, J. W. Tukey (eds.), Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes, chapter 9. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

R. A. Jinkinson & M. Slater (1981), Critical discussion of a graphical method for identifying discrete distributions, The Statistician, 30, 239-248.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data(WomenQueue)
gf <- goodfit(WomenQueue, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)