Old Faithful Geyser Data

SUMMARY:

The faithful data frame has 272 rows and 2 columns; the waiting time between eruptions and the duration of the eruption for the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

DATA DESCRIPTION:

This data frame contains the following columns:

ARGUMENTS:

eruptions
the time in minutes of each eruption
waiting
the waiting time in minutes to the next eruption.

SOURCE:

Hardle, W. (1991) Smoothing Techniques with Implementation in S. New York: Springer

See also:
Azzalini, A. and Bowman, A.W. (1990) A look at some data on the Old Faithful geyser. Applied Statistics 39, 357-365.

SEE ALSO:

EXAMPLES:

attach(faithful)
hist.scott(eruptions)
hist(eruptions, 15, prob=T, xlim=c(1,6), ylim=c(0, 0.8))
lines(density(eruptions, width=0.425))
lines(density(eruptions, width=0.625), lty=3)