M1 Motorspeedway Times

The times recorded are those for 41 successive vehicles travelling northwards along the M1 motorway in England when passing a fixed point near Junction 13 in Bedfordshire on Saturday, March 23, 1985. After subtracting the times, the following 40 interarrival times reported to the nearest second are stored in SDS4 under the variable Times. Data are used in Example 10.17.

Format

A data frame with 40 observations on the following variable:

Times

interarrival times to the nearest second

Source

Hand, D. J., et. al. (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Chapman & Hall, London.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples

with(data = SDS4, hist(Times))