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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

Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 19–20.

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

data("WomenQueue")
gf <- goodfit(WomenQueue, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)

vcd

Visualizing Categorical Data

v1.4-10

GPL-2

Authors

David Meyer [aut, cre], Achim Zeileis [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0918-3766>), Kurt Hornik [aut], Florian Gerber [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb]

Initial release