Description

Gloss of paint on cars

Format

A data frame with 40 observations on the following 2 variables.

color

a factor with levels Black, Green, Silver and White

gloss

a numeric vector

Details

The final coat of paint on a car is typically a clear coat. This layer is applied on top of the layer with the color and formulations must be compatible with many base colors. This data was used to investigate the performance of a formulation on the appearance of the coating when used with various base colors.

References

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

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