Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!
Get Started for Free

geyser

Old Faithful Geyser Data


Description

A version of the eruptions data from the ‘Old Faithful’ geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. This version comes from Azzalini and Bowman (1990) and is of continuous measurement from August 1 to August 15, 1985.

Some nocturnal duration measurements have originally been described as ‘short’, ‘medium’ or ‘long’ and are given as interval censored observations in this version of the dataset.

Usage

geyser

Format

A data frame with 299 observations on 2 variables.

duration Surv Eruption time in mins
waiting numeric Waiting time for this eruption

Note

Variable duration was converted to a Surv object for representing interval censored nocturnal observations.

References

Azzalini, A. and Bowman, A. W. (1990) A look at some data on the Old Faithful geyser. Applied Statistics 39, 357–365.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

See Also


TH.data

TH's Data Archive

v1.0-10
GPL-3
Authors
Torsten Hothorn [aut, cre]
Initial release
2019-01-22

We don't support your browser anymore

Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.