mcycle {boot}R Documentation

Data from a Simulated Motorcycle Accident

Description

The mcycle data frame has 133 rows and 2 columns.

In an experiment to test crash helmets, a series of measurements of head acceleration after a simulated motorcycle crash were recorded.

Usage

data(mcycle)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

times
The time in milliseconds since impact.
accel
The recorded head acceleration (in g).

Source

The data were obtained from

Silverman, B.W. (1985) Some aspects of the spline smoothing approach to non-parametric curve fitting. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 47, 1–52.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Venables, W.N. and Ripley, B.D. (1994) Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Springer-Verlag.

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