[R] Michaelson-Morley Speed of Light Data

[Michael Friendly]

The same data, with the proper citations to Michelson(1882) and 
Stigler(1977) are contained in the HistData package as data(Michelson)
See
library(HistData)
example(Michelson)


On 4/11/2012 7:42 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12-04-11 12:43 AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
>> <URL: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/datasets/html/morley.html>
>>
>> "The classical data of Michaelson and Morley on the speed of light"
>>
>> Can you provide more information about the data? How were they obtained,
>> etc.? I do not have the book "Genstat Primer" and the nearest location
>> where
>> it is available is University of York which is rather far from my
>> location.
>
> If you can't find the cited reference, I'd try Google. For instance, it
> led me to this page
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelsonmorley-boxplot.svg
>
> which appears to show five series.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Note that the data for the Michelson-Morley experiments [1] consist of 6
>> experiments of 17 runs each, not of 5 series of 20 runs each.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christopher Yeleighton
>>
>> ___
>> [1]<URL:
>> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Relative_Motion_of_the_Earth_and_the_Luminiferous_Ether
>>
>>>
>>
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