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Activity10: Activity patterns of a statistician for 20 days

Description

Proportion of a day in activity teaching, consulting, administrating, research, other wakeful activities and sleep for 20 days are given.

Usage

data(Activity10)

Arguments

source

Aitchison: CODA microcomputer statistical package, 1986, the file name STATDAY.DAT, here included under the GNU Public Library Licence Version 2 or newer.

Details

The activity of an academic statistician were divided into following six categories

rll{ teac teaching cons consultation admi administration rese research wake other wakeful activities slee sleep } Data show the proportions of the 24 hours devoted to each activity, recorded on each of 20 days, selected randomly from working days in alternate weeks, so as to avoid any possible carry-over effects, such as short-sleep day being compensated by make-up sleep on a succeeding day.

The six activity may be divided into two categories 'work' comprising activities 1,2,3,4: and 'leisure' comprising activities 5 and 6.

All rows sum to one.

References

Aitchison: The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data, 1986, Data 10, pp15.