R: Activity patterns of a statistician for 20 days

Activity31 {compositions} | R Documentation

## Activity patterns of a statistician for 20 days

### Description

Proportion of a day in activity teaching, consulting, administrating, research, other wakeful activities and sleep for 20 days are given.

### Usage

    data(Activity31)

### Details

The activity of an academic statistician were divided into following six categories

| teac | teaching
| cons | consultation
| admi | administration
| rese | research
| wake | other wakeful activities
| slee | sleep

Data shows the proportions of the 24 hours devoted to each activity, recorded on each of 20 days, selected randomly from working days in alternate weeks, so as to avoid any possible carry-over effects, such as short-sleep day being compensated by make-up sleep on a succeeding day.

The six activity may be divided into two categories 'work' comprising activities 1,2,3,4: and 'leisure' comprising activities 5 and 6.

### Note

Courtesy of J. Aitchison

### Source

Aitchison: CODA microcomputer statistical package, 1986, the file name ACTIVITY.DAT, here included under the GNU Public Library Licence Version 2 or newer.

### References

Aitchison: The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data, 1986, Data 31.

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