Waiting times between successive eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser

Data for Exercise 5.12 and 5.111

Faithful

Format

A data frame/tibble with 299 observations on two variables

time

a numeric vector

eruption

a factor with levels 1 and 2

Source

A. Azzalini and A. Bowman, "A Look at Some Data on the Old Faithful Geyser," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 39 (1990), 357-366.

References

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

Examples

t.test(time ~ eruption, data = Faithful)
#> 
#> 	Welch Two Sample t-test
#> 
#> data:  time by eruption
#> t = -25.56, df = 208.34, p-value < 2.2e-16
#> alternative hypothesis: true difference in means between group 1 and group 2 is not equal to 0
#> 95 percent confidence interval:
#>  -25.91029 -22.19957
#> sample estimates:
#> mean in group 1 mean in group 2 
#>        57.10909        81.16402 
#> 
hist(Faithful$time, xlab = "wait time", main = "", freq = FALSE)
lines(density(Faithful$time))


if (FALSE) {
library(ggplot2)
ggplot2::ggplot(data = Faithful, aes(x = time, y = ..density..)) + 
           geom_histogram(binwidth = 5, fill = "pink", col = "black") + 
           geom_density() + 
           theme_bw() + 
           labs(x = "wait time")
}