| light {BayesDA} | R Documentation |
Simon Newcomb's measurements (1882) to measure the speed of light. The data are recordes as deviations from 24800 nanoseconds.
data(light)
The format is: atomic [1:66] 28 26 33 24 34 -44 27 16 40 -2 ... - attr(*, "comment")= chr "Units: deviations from 24800 nanoseconds"
The currently accepted value for the speed of light on this scale is 33.0.
data(light) comment(light) hist(light, breaks=40) abline(v=33.0, col="red")