Michelson's Speed of Light Data

Arguments

Expt The experiment number, from 1 to 5
Run The run number within each experiment
Speed Speed-of-light measurement

SUMMARY

Measurements of the speed of light in air, made between 5th June and 2nd July, 1879. The data consists of five experiments, each consisting of 20 consecutive "runs". The response is the speed of light in km/s, less 299000. The currently accepted value, on this scale of measurement, is 734.5.

DATA DESCRIPTION

The data frame contains the following components:

SOURCE

A.J. Weekes (1986) A Genstat Primer. Edward Arnold.

References

S. M. Stigler (1977) Do robust estimators work with real data? Annals of Statistics 5, 1055-1098.


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