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8.2.58.41 tblish.dataset.morley ¶

Static Method: out = morley () ¶

Michelson Speed of Light Data

Description ¶

A classical data of Michelson (but not this one with Morley) on measurements done in 1879 on the speed of light. The data consists of five experiments, each consisting of 20 consecutive ‘runs’. The response is the speed of light measurement, suitably coded (km/sec, with 299000 subtracted).

Format ¶

Expt

The experiment number, from 1 to 5.

Run

The run number within each experiment.

Speed

Speed-of-light measurement.

Details ¶

The data is here viewed as a randomized block experiment with experiment and run as the factors. run may also be considered a quantitative variate to account for linear (or polynomial) changes in the measurement over the course of a single experiment.

Source ¶

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

S. M. Stigler (1977). Do robust estimators work with real data? Annals of Statistics 5, 1055–1098. (See Table 6.)

A. A. Michelson (1882). Experimental determination of the velocity of light made at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. Astronomic Papers, 1, 135–8. U.S. Nautical Almanac Office. (See Table 24.).

Examples ¶

t = tblish.dataset.morley;

# TODO: Port to Octave