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Name:

Women in Queues

Description:

Data from Jinkinson \& Slater (1981) and Hoaglin \& Tukey (1985) reporting the frequency distribution of females in 100 queues of length 10 in a London Underground station.

Variables:

A 1-way table giving the number of women in 100 queues of length 10. The variable and its levels are

No	Name	Levels
1	nWomen	0, 1, ..., 10

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Files:

Women in Queues_247_23.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 19–20.

References

D. C. Hoaglin \& J. W. Tukey (1985), Checking the shape of discrete distributions. In D. C. Hoaglin, F. Mosteller, J. W. Tukey (eds.), Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes, chapter 9. John Wiley \& Sons, New York.

R. A. Jinkinson \& M. Slater (1981), Critical discussion of a graphical method for identifying discrete distributions, The Statistician, 30, 239–248.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Women_in_Queues_247_23.csv")