Data from a Simulated Motorcycle Accident

Arguments

times The time in milliseconds since impact.
accel The recorded head acceleration (in g).

SUMMARY

The mcycle data frame has 133 rows and 2 columns.

In an experiment to test crash helmets, a series of measurements of head acceleration after a simulated motorcycle crash were recorded.

DATA DESCRIPTION

This data frame contains the following columns:

SOURCE

The data were obtained from

Silverman, B.W. (1985) Some aspects of the spline smoothing approach to non-parametric curve fitting. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 47, 1-52.

OTHER REFERENCES

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Venables, W.N. and Ripley, B.D. (1994) Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Springer-Verlag.

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