Women in Queues

Description

Data from Jinkinson & Slater (1981) and Hoaglin & Tukey (1985) reporting the frequency distribution of females in 100 queues of length 10 in a London Underground station.

Usage

data("WomenQueue")

Format

A 1-way table giving the number of women in 100 queues of length 10. The variable and its levels are

Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 19–20.

References

D. C. Hoaglin & J. W. Tukey (1985), Checking the shape of discrete distributions. In D. C. Hoaglin, F. Mosteller, J. W. Tukey (eds.), Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes, chapter 9. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

R. A. Jinkinson & M. Slater (1981), Critical discussion of a graphical method for identifying discrete distributions, The Statistician, 30, 239–248.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("WomenQueue")
gf <- goodfit(WomenQueue, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)