out =
stackloss ()
¶Brownlee’s Stack Loss Plant Data
Operational data of a plant for the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid.
AirFlow
Flow of cooling air.
WaterTemp
Cooling Water Inlet temperature.
AcidConc
Concentration of acid (per 1000, minus 500).
StackLoss
Stack loss
“Obtained from 21 days of operation of a plant for the oxidation of ammonia (NH3) to nitric acid (HNO3). The nitric oxides produced are absorbed in a countercurrent absorption tower”. (Brownlee, cited by Dodge, slightly reformatted by MM.)
AirFlow
represents the rate of operation of the plant. WaterTemp
is the
temperature of cooling water circulated through coils in the absorption tower.
AcidConc
is the concentration of the acid circulating, minus 50, times 10:
that is, 89 corresponds to 58.9 per cent acid. StackLoss
(the dependent variable)
is 10 times the percentage of the ingoing ammonia to the plant that escapes from
the absorption column unabsorbed; that is, an (inverse) measure of the over-all
efficiency of the plant.
Brownlee, K. A. (1960, 2nd ed. 1965). Statistical Theory and Methodology in Science and Engineering. New York: Wiley. pp. 491–500.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988). The New S Language. Monterey: Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
Dodge, Y. (1996). The guinea pig of multiple regression. In: Robust Statistics, Data Analysis, and Computer Intensive Methods; In Honor of Peter Huber’s 60th Birthday, 1996, Lecture Notes in Statistics 109, Springer-Verlag, New York.
t = tblish.dataset.stackloss; # TODO: Create linear model and print summary