WeldonDice {vcd} | R Documentation |
Data from Pearson (1900) about the frequency of 5s and 6s in throws of 12 dice. Weldon tossed the dice 26,306 times and reported his results in a letter to Francis Galton on 1894-02-02.
data(WeldonDice)
A 1-way table giving the frequency of a 5 or a 6 in 26,306 throws of 12 dice where 10 indicates `10 or more' 5s or 6s. The variable and its levels are
No | Name | Levels |
1 | n56 | 0, 1, ..., 10 |
Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pp. 20-21.
K. Pearson (1900), On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen by random sampling, Philosophical Magazine, 50 (5th series), 157-175.
M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
data(WeldonDice) gf <- goodfit(WeldonDice, type = "binomial") summary(gf) plot(gf)