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Stamp

Thicknesses of 1872 Hidalgo stamps issued in Mexico


Description

Data for Statistical Insight Chapter 1 and Exercise 5.110

Usage

Stamp

Format

A data frame/tibble with 485 observations on one variable

thickness

stamp thickness (in mm)

Source

Izenman, A., Sommer, C. (1988), Philatelic Mixtures and Multimodal Densities, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83, 941-953.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

hist(Stamp$thickness, freq = FALSE, col = "lightblue", 
     main = "", xlab = "stamp thickness (mm)")
lines(density(Stamp$thickness), col = "blue")
t.test(Stamp$thickness, conf.level = 0.99)

BSDA

Basic Statistics and Data Analysis

v1.2.0
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Alan T. Arnholt [aut, cre], Ben Evans [aut]
Initial release
2017-07-29

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