Varve thickness from a sequence through an Eocene lake deposit in the Rocky Mountains

Source: R/BSDA-package.R

Data for Exercise 6.57

Greenriv

Format

A data frame/tibble with 37 observations on one variable

thick

varve thickness in millimeters

References

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

Examples


stem(Greenriv$thick)
#> 
#>   The decimal point is at the |
#> 
#>    8 | 9
#>    9 | 0012244899
#>   10 | 00123367888
#>   11 | 00137
#>   12 | 036
#>   13 | 045
#>   14 | 26
#>   15 | 06
#> 
SIGN.test(Greenriv$thick, md = 7.3, alternative = "greater")
#> 
#> 	One-sample Sign-Test
#> 
#> data:  Greenriv$thick
#> s = 37, p-value = 7.276e-12
#> alternative hypothesis: true median is greater than 7.3
#> 95 percent confidence interval:
#>  10.10127      Inf
#> sample estimates:
#> median of x 
#>        10.7 
#> 
#> Achieved and Interpolated Confidence Intervals: 
#> 
#>                   Conf.Level  L.E.pt U.E.pt
#> Lower Achieved CI     0.9061 10.2000    Inf
#> Interpolated CI       0.9500 10.1013    Inf
#> Upper Achieved CI     0.9506 10.1000    Inf
#>