vcd (version 1.4-4)

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

No	Name	Levels
1	nWomen	0, 1, …, 10

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

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