MLBattend {UsingR}R Documentation

Major league baseball attendance data

Description

Data on home-game attendance in Major League Baseball for the years 1969-2000.

Usage

data(MLBattend)

Format

A data frame with 838 observations on the following 10 variables.

franchise
Which team
league
American or National league
division
Which division
year
The year (the year 2000 is recorded as 0)
attendance
Actual attendance
runs.scored
Runs scored by the team during year
runs.allowed
Runs allows by the team during year
wins
Number of wins for season
losses
Number of losses for season
games.behind
A measure of how far from division winner the team was. Higher numbers are worse.

Source

This data was submitted to The Journal of Statistical Education by James J. Cochran, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v10n2/datasets.cochran.html.

Examples

data(MLBattend)
boxplot(attendance ~ franchise, MLBattend)
with(MLBattend, cor(attendance,wins))

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