# File Name: Michelso.dat # # File Format: ASCII # Header : lines 1 to 60 (= 60) # Certified Values: lines 41 to 43 (= 3) # Data : lines 61 to 160 (= 100) # # Dataset Name: Michelso (Speed of Light Data, in millions of meters per second) # # Description: This is an observed/"real world" data set # consisting of 100 measurements of the # speed of light in air. This classic experiment # was carried out by Michelson is 1879. # We here use this data to test accuracy # in summary statistics calculations. # # Stat Category: Univariate: Summary Statistics # # Reference: Dorsey, Ernest N. (1944). The Velocity of Light. # Transactions of the American Philiosophical # Society, Volume 34, Part 1, Pages 1-110, Table 22. # # y = mu + e # Certified Values # Sample Mean ybar: 299.852400000000 # Sample Standard Deviation (denom. = n-1) s: 0.0790105478190518 # Sample Autocorrelation Coefficient (lag 1) r(1): 0.535199668621283 # # Number of Observations: 100 # # Data: Y # ---------- set loc yvar qua read cases inline 1 299.85 2 299.74 3 299.90 4 300.07 5 299.93 6 299.85 7 299.95 8 299.98 9 299.98 10 299.88 11 300.00 12 299.98 13 299.93 14 299.65 15 299.76 16 299.81 17 300.00 18 300.00 19 299.96 20 299.96 21 299.96 22 299.94 23 299.96 24 299.94 25 299.88 26 299.80 27 299.85 28 299.88 29 299.90 30 299.84 31 299.83 32 299.79 33 299.81 34 299.88 35 299.88 36 299.83 37 299.80 38 299.79 39 299.76 40 299.80 41 299.88 42 299.88 43 299.88 44 299.86 45 299.72 46 299.72 47 299.62 48 299.86 49 299.97 50 299.95 51 299.88 52 299.91 53 299.85 54 299.87 55 299.84 56 299.84 57 299.85 58 299.84 59 299.84 60 299.84 61 299.89 62 299.81 63 299.81 64 299.82 65 299.80 66 299.77 67 299.76 68 299.74 69 299.75 70 299.76 71 299.91 72 299.92 73 299.89 74 299.86 75 299.88 76 299.72 77 299.84 78 299.85 79 299.85 80 299.78 81 299.89 82 299.84 83 299.78 84 299.81 85 299.76 86 299.81 87 299.79 88 299.81 89 299.82 90 299.85 91 299.87 92 299.87 93 299.81 94 299.74 95 299.81 96 299.94 97 299.95 98 299.80 99 299.81 100 299.87 ;;;; run des mean yvar