Activity31: 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.source
Aitchison: CODA microcomputer statistical package, 1986, the file name ACTIVITY.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 shows 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.
References
Aitchison: The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data, 1986, Data 31.