best.times {UsingR}R Documentation

Best track and field times by age and distance

Description

A dataset giving world records in track and field running events for various distances and different age groups.

Usage

data(best.times)

Format

A data frame with 113 observations on the following 6 variables.

Dist
Distance in meters (42195 is a marathon)
Name
Name of record holder
Date
Date of record
Time
Time in seconds
Time.1
Time as character
age
Age at time of record

Details

Age-graded race results allow competitors of different ages to compare their race performances. This data set allows one to see what the relationship is based on peak performances.

Source

The data comes from http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~snsgrubb/athletics/agegroups.html which includes a calculator to compare results.

Examples

data(best.times)
attach(best.times)
by.dist = split(best.times,as.factor(Dist))
lm(scale(Time) ~ age, by.dist[['400']])
dists = names(by.dist)
lapply(dists, function(n) print(lm(scale(Time) ~ age, by.dist[[n]])))

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