[R] Source of chickwts data

[Chirok Han]

Many thanks. That's the right one.
It would be better corrected in the next version of R.

Thanks again.
Chirok

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:01 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Chirok Han
>> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 9:51 AM
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>> Subject: [R] Source of chickwts data
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list. My apologies if I'm
>> sending the question to the wrong mailing list.
>> (The r-packages list moderator suggested using the R-help list.)
>>
>> My question is about the "chickwts" data in the datasets package.
>> According to help(chickwts), the source of the data is
>>
>>  Anonymous (1948) Biometrika, 35, 214.
>>
>> But this reference seems irrelevant.
>> (See http://www.jstor.org/stable/i315414.)
>>
>> The help document also gives "McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data
>> Analysis. New York: Wiley" as a reference, but unfortunately my local
>> library does not keep the book. Could someone please help me find the
>> correct source of the data?
>
> McNeil's book, page 30, attributes it to
>  "Anonymous query, Biometrics, 1948, page 214"
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Chirok
>>
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