MASS (version 7.3-45)

hills: Record Times in Scottish Hill Races

Description

The record times in 1984 for 35 Scottish hill races.

Usage

hills

Arguments

Format

The components are:
dist
distance in miles (on the map).
climb
total height gained during the route, in feet.
time
record time in minutes.

Source

A.C. Atkinson (1986) Comment: Aspects of diagnostic regression analysis. Statistical Science 1, 397--402. [A.C. Atkinson (1988) Transformations unmasked. Technometrics 30, 311--318 “corrects” the time for Knock Hill from 78.65 to 18.65. It is unclear if this based on the original records.]

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.