dataSDA (version 0.1.8)

china_temp.int: China Meteorological Stations Quarterly Temperature Interval Dataset

Description

Interval-valued temperature data (Celsius) for 60 Chinese meteorological stations observed over the four quarters of years 1974 to 1988. One outlier observation (YinChuan_1982) has been discarded.

Usage

data(china_temp.int)

Format

A data frame with 899 observations and 5 variables.

Details

Originates from the Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Database of the People's Republic of China. Widely used in the SDA literature for demonstrating standardization, clustering, self-organizing maps, MLE and MANOVA.

References

Brito, P. and Duarte Silva, A.P. (2012). Modelling interval data with Normal and Skew-Normal distributions. J. Appl. Stat., 39(1), 3-20.

Kao, C.-H. et al. (2014). Exploratory data analysis of interval-valued symbolic data with matrix visualization. CSDA, 79, 14-29.

Examples

data(china_temp.int)