vcd (version 1.4-4)

WeldonDice: Weldon's Dice Data

Description

Data from Pearson (1900) about the frequency of 5s and 6s in throws of 12 dice. Weldon tossed the dice 26,306 times and reported his results in a letter to Francis Galton on 1894-02-02.

Usage

data("WeldonDice")

Format

A 1-way table giving the frequency of a 5 or a 6 in 26,306 throws of 12 dice where 10 indicates ‘10 or more’ 5s or 6s. The variable and its levels are

No	Name	Levels
1	n56	0, 1, …, 10

References

K. Pearson (1900), On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen by random sampling, Philosophical Magazine, 50 (5th series), 157--175.

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

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("WeldonDice")
gf <- goodfit(WeldonDice, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)
# }