drums dataset

Weights of drums before and after filling

Weights of drums before and after filling

Weights of drums before and after being filled with a chemical product. 1.1

data

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following 3 variables.

  • number: a numeric vector
  • empty: a numeric vector
  • full: a numeric vector

Details

These data were collected to study a filling process that filled drums of material based on an assumed weight of the empty drum.

References

Peter R. Nelson, Marie Coffin and Karen A. F. Copeland (2003), Introductory Statistics for Engineering Experimentation, Elsevier. (Appendix A)

Examples

str(drums)
  • Maintainer: Douglas Bates
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2012-10-29

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 30
  • Number of columns: 3
  • Class: data.frame

Column names and types

  • number:integer
  • empty:numeric
  • full:numeric