The World Famous Baseball Data

Description

These data come from the back-side of 59 baseball cards that Carrie had.

Usage

data(baseball)

Format

A data frame with 59 observations on the following 6 variables.

height

Height in inches

weight

Weight in pounds

bat

a factor with levels L R S

throw

a factor with levels L R

field

a factor with levels 0 1

average

ERA if the player is a pitcher and his batting average if the player is a fielder

Source

Hettmansperger, T.P. and McKean J.W. (2011), Robust Nonparametric Statistical Methods, 2nd ed., New York: Chapman-Hall.

Examples

data(baseball)
wilcox.test(height~field,data=baseball)
rfit(weight~height,data=baseball)

Results

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> library(Rfit)
Loading required package: quantreg
Loading required package: SparseM

Attaching package: 'SparseM'

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    backsolve

> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/Rfit/baseball.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: baseball
> ### Title: The World Famous Baseball Data
> ### Aliases: baseball
> ### Keywords: datasets
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> data(baseball)
> wilcox.test(height~field,data=baseball)

	Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction

data:  height by field
W = 686.5, p-value = 7.412e-05
alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0

Warning message:
In wilcox.test.default(x = c(74L, 77L, 73L, 78L, 76L, 78L, 76L,  :
  cannot compute exact p-value with ties
> rfit(weight~height,data=baseball)
Call:
rfit.default(formula = weight ~ height, data = baseball)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)      height 
-228.571440    5.714286 
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> dev.off()
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          1 
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