railcar dataset

1.1

data

Rail car hold times

Format

A data frame with 53 observations on the following variable.

• days: a numeric vector

Details

A company ships product to customers in rail cars. The rail cars are delivered by the railroad to a rail siding at the customer's facility. This data records the time that a railcar is held at a customer facility.

References

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

Examples

str(railcar)
str(railcar2)