

newcomb(MASS)                                R Documentation

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     A numeric vector giving the Third Series of measure-
     ments of the passage time of light recorded by Newcomb
     in 1882. The given values divided by 1000 plus 24 give
     the time in millionths of a second for light to tra-
     verse a known distance.  The "true" value is now con-
     sidered to be 33.02.

_S_o_u_r_c_e_:

     S. M. Stigler (1973) Simon Newcombe, Percy Daniell, and
     the history of robust estimation 1885-1920.  Journal of
     the American Statistical Association 68, 872-879

     R. G. Staudte and S. J. Sheather (1990) Robust Estima-
     tion and Testing.  Wiley

