faithful(base)R Documentation

Old Faithful Geyser Data

Description

The `faithful' data frame has 272 rows and 2 columns; the waiting time between eruptions and the duration of the eruption for the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

Usage

data(faithful)

Format

A data frame with 272 observations on 2 variables.
[,1] eruptions numeric Eruption time in mins
[,2] waiting numeric Waiting time to next eruption

Source

W. Hardle.

References

Hardle, W. (1991). Smoothing Techniques with Implementation in S. New York: Springer

Azzalini, A. and Bowman, A.W. (1990) A look at some data on the Old Faithful geyser. Applied Statistics 39, 357-365.


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