R: Ground beef serving size data set

groundbeef {fitdistrplus} | R Documentation

## Ground beef serving size data set

### Description

Serving sizes collected in a French survey, for ground beef patties consumed by children under 5 years old.

### Usage

    data(groundbeef)

### Format

`groundbeef` is a data frame with 1 column (serving: serving sizes in grams)

### Source

Delignette-Muller, M.L., Cornu, M. 2008. Quantitative risk assessment for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in frozen ground beef patties consumed by young children in French households. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 128, 158-164.

### Examples

    # (1) load of data
    #
    data(groundbeef)

    # (2) description and plot of data
    #
    serving <- groundbeef$serving
    descdist(serving)
    plotdist(serving)

    # (3) fit of a Weibull distribution to data
    #
    fitW <- fitdist(serving,"weibull")
    summary(fitW)
    plot(fitW)
    gofstat(fitW)

[Package fitdistrplus version 1.0-9 Index]