coal: Yearly number of coal mine disasters in Britain
Description
A data of 112 observations registering the yearly number of coal mine disasters in Britain from 1851 to 1962.
The data comes from Diggle et al. (1988) and has been used for spline regression by Eilers et al. (1996).
Usage
coal
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 112 observations and 2 variables:
year
year
n
number of coal mine disasters
References
Eilers, P. H. C. and Marx, B. D. (1996). `Flexible Smoothing with B-splines and Penalties', Statistical Science 11(2), 89-102.