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File Name: Michelso.dat
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Header : lines 1 to 60 (= 60)
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Certified Values: lines 41 to 43 (= 3)
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Data : lines 61 to 160 (= 100)
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Dataset Name: Michelso (Speed of Light Data, in millions of meters per second)
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Description: This is an observed/"real world" data set
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consisting of 100 measurements of the
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speed of light in air. This classic experiment
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was carried out by Michelson is 1879.
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We here use this data to test accuracy
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in summary statistics calculations.
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Stat Category: Univariate: Summary Statistics
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Reference: Dorsey, Ernest N. (1944). The Velocity of Light.
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Transactions of the American Philiosophical
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Society, Volume 34, Part 1, Pages 1-110, Table 22.
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Sample Mean ybar: 299.852400000000
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Sample Standard Deviation (denom. = n-1) s: 0.0790105478190518
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Sample Autocorrelation Coefficient (lag 1) r(1): 0.535199668621283
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Number of Observations: 100