geyser

Function geyser 

Source
pub fn geyser() -> Result<DataFrame, PolarsError>
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§Old Faithful Geyser Data

§Description:

A version of the eruptions data from the ‘Old Faithful’ geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. This version comes from Azzalini and Bowman (1990) and is of continuous measurement from August 1 to August 15, 1985.

Some nocturnal duration measurements were coded as 2, 3 or 4 minutes, having originally been described as ‘short’, ‘medium’ or ‘long’.

§Usage:

geyser

§Format:

A data frame with 299 observations on 2 variables.

  • ‘duration’ numeric Eruption time in mins
  • ‘waiting’numeric Waiting time for this eruption

§Note:

The ‘waiting’ time was incorrectly described as the time to the next eruption in the original files, and corrected for ‘MASS’ version 7.3-30.

§References:

Azzalini, A. and Bowman, A. W. (1990) A look at some data on the Old Faithful geyser. Applied Statistics 39, 357-365.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

§See Also:

‘faithful’.

CRAN package ‘sm’.