R: Women in Queues

WomenQueue {vcd} | R Documentation

## Women in Queues

### Description

Data from Jinkinson \& Slater (1981) and Hoaglin \& Tukey (1985) reporting the frequency distribution of females in 100 queues of length 10 in a London Underground station.

### Usage

    data("WomenQueue")

### Format

A 1-way table giving the number of women in 100 queues of length 10. The variable and its levels are

No | Name | Levels
1 | nWomen | 0, 1, ..., 10

### Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 19–20.

### References

D. C. Hoaglin \& J. W. Tukey (1985), Checking the shape of discrete distributions. In D. C. Hoaglin, F. Mosteller, J. W. Tukey (eds.), Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes, chapter 9. John Wiley \& Sons, New York.

R. A. Jinkinson \& M. Slater (1981), Critical discussion of a graphical method for identifying discrete distributions, The Statistician, 30, 239–248.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

### Examples

    data("WomenQueue")
    gf <- goodfit(WomenQueue, type = "binomial")
    summary(gf)
    plot(gf)

[Package vcd version 1.4-4 Index]