R: Old Faithful Geyser Data

geyser2 {tclust} | R Documentation

## Old Faithful Geyser Data

### Description

A bivariate data set obtained from the Old Faithful Geyser, containing the eruption length and the length of the previous eruption for 271 eruptions of this geyser in minutes.

### Usage

    geyser2

### Format

`Eruption length`

  The eruption length in minutes.

`Previous eruption length`

  The length of the previous eruption in minutes.

### Source

This particular data structure can be obtained by applying the following code to the "Old Faithful Geyser" (`faithful` data set (Härdle 1991) in the package `datasets`):
`f1 <- faithful[,1]`
`geyser2 <- cbind (f1[-length(f1)], f1[-1])`
`colnames (geyser2) <- c("Eruption length",`
`"Previous eruption length")`

### References

García-Escudero, L.A.; Gordaliza, A. (1999). "Robustness properties of k-means and trimmed k-means". Journal of the American Statistical Assoc., Vol.94, No.447, 956-969.
Härdle, W. (1991). "Smoothing Techniques with Implementation in S.", New York: Springer.

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