record.dat {Rfwdmv} | R Documentation |
This data set contains women's athletic records for 55 countries.
data(record.dat)
A data frame with 55 observations on the following 7 variables.
These data are taken from a handbook prepared for the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles. They therefore come from an interesting period in the history of women's athletics, when there were, now authenticated, allegations about the treatment of female athletes, especially in communist countries, with male sex hormones.
Johnson and Wichern (1997), pp. 44-45.
Atkinson, Riani and Cerioli (2004), p. 558-559; http://www.riani.it/arc.
data(record.dat)