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bacteria

Bacteria count in water samples

Description

As described in Nelson, Coffin and Copeland (2003), “Purified water is used in one step in the production of a medical device. The water is tested daily for bacteria. These data are the results from 50 days of testing. They are the counts of a particular strain of bacteria in a 100 ml. sample of water.”

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following variable.

level: bacteria count

References

Peter R. Nelson, Marie Coffin and Karen A. F. Copeland (2003), Introductory Statistics for Engineering Experimentation, Elsevier. (Appendix A)

Examples

str(bacteria)
qqmath(~ level, bacteria, aspect = 1,
       xlab = "Standard normal quantiles",
       ylab = "Bacteria count")

EngrExpt

Data sets from "Introductory Statistics for Engineering Experimentation"

v0.1-8

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

R port by Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> and Karen A.F. Copeland <karen@boulderstats.com>

Initial release

2009-08-21