R: Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization

# Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization

## Documentation for package ‘HistData’ version 1.0.0

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HistData-package | Data sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
Arbuthnot | Arbuthnot's Data on Male and Female Birth Ratios
Armada | La Felicisima Armada
Bowley | Bowley's data on values of British and Irish trade, 1855-1899
Breslau | Halley's Breslau Life Table
Cavendish | Cavendish's Determinations of the Density of the Earth
ChestSizes | Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen
ChestStigler | Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen
Cholera | William Farr's Data on Cholera in London, 1849
CholeraDeaths1849 | Daily Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhaea in England, 1849
CushnyPeebles | Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives
CushnyPeeblesN | Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives
Dactyl | Edgeworth's counts of dactyls in Virgil's Aeneid
DrinksWages | Elderton and Pearson's (1910) data on drinking and wages
EdgeworthDeaths | Edgeworth's Data on Death Rates in British Counties
Fingerprints | Waite's data on Patterns in Fingerprints
Galton | Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children
GaltonFamilies | Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children, by child
Guerry | Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of France"
HalleyLifeTable | Halley's Life Table
HistData | Data sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
Jevons | W. Stanley Jevons' data on Numerical Discrimination
Langren | van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
Langren.all | van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
Langren1644 | van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
Macdonell | Macdonell's Data on Height and Finger Length of Criminals, used by Gosset (1908)
MacdonellDF | Macdonell's Data on Height and Finger Length of Criminals, used by Gosset (1908)
Mayer | Mayer's Data on the Libration of the Moon.
Michelson | Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light
MichelsonSets | Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light
Minard | Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
Minard.cities | Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
Minard.temp | Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
Minard.troops | Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
Nightingale | Florence Nightingale's data on deaths in the Crimean War
OldMaps | Latitudes and Longitudes of 39 Points in 11 Old Maps
PearsonLee | Pearson and Lee's data on the Heights of Parents and Children by Gender
Playfair1824 | Playfair's Linear Chronology
PolioTrials | Polio Field Trials Data
Pollen | Pollen Data Challenge
Prostitutes | Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris
Pyx | Trial of the Pyx
Quarrels | Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
Saturn | Laplace's Saturn data.
Sdeaths | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Sdensity | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Snow | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Snow.dates | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Snow.deaths | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Snow.deaths2 | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Snow.polygons | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Snow.pumps | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Snow.streets | John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
SnowMap | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Splot | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Spolygons | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Spumps | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Sscale | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Sstreets | Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Virginis | John F. W. Herschel's Data on the Orbit of the Twin Stars gamma _Virginis_
Virginis.interp | John F. W. Herschel's Data on the Orbit of the Twin Stars gamma _Virginis_
Wheat | Playfair's Data on Wages and the Price of Wheat
Wheat.monarchs | Playfair's Data on Wages and the Price of Wheat
Yeast | Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts
YeastD.mat | Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts
ZeaMays | Darwin's Heights of Cross- and Self-fertilized Zea May Pairs
_PACKAGE | Data sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization