Surface salinity measurements taken offshore from Annapolis, Maryland in 1927

Source: R/BSDA-package.R

Data for Exercise 6.41

Chesapea

Format

A data frame/tibble with 16 observations on one variable

salinity

surface salinity measurements (in parts per 1000) for station 11, offshore from Annanapolis, Maryland, on July 3-4, 1927.

Source

Davis, J. (1986) Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, Second Edition. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples


qqnorm(Chesapea$salinity)
qqline(Chesapea$salinity)

shapiro.test(Chesapea$salinity)
#> 
#> 	Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 
#> data:  Chesapea$salinity
#> W = 0.95048, p-value = 0.4973
#> 
t.test(Chesapea$salinity, mu = 7)
#> 
#> 	One Sample t-test
#> 
#> data:  Chesapea$salinity
#> t = -1.444, df = 15, p-value = 0.1693
#> alternative hypothesis: true mean is not equal to 7
#> 95 percent confidence interval:
#>  6.588356 7.079144
#> sample estimates:
#> mean of x 
#>   6.83375 
#>