melbmaxtemp {VGAM} | R Documentation

## Melbourne Daily Maximum Temperatures

### Description

Melbourne daily maximum temperatures in degrees Celsius over the ten-year period 1981–1990.

### Usage

    data(melbmaxtemp)

### Format

A vector with 3650 observations.

### Details

This is a time series data from Melbourne, Australia. It is commonly used to give a difficult quantile regression problem since the data is bimodal. That is, a hot day is likely to be followed by either an equally hot day or one much cooler. However, an independence assumption is typically made.

### References

Hyndman, R. J. and Bashtannyk, D. M. and Grunwald, G. K. (1996). Estimating and visualizing conditional densities. J. Comput. Graph. Statist., 5(4), 315–336.

### See Also

`lms.bcn`.

### Examples

    summary(melbmaxtemp)
    ## Not run:  par(mfrow = c(1, 1), mar = c(5, 4, 0.2, 0.1) + 0.1, las = 1)
    melb <- data.frame(today     = melbmaxtemp[-1],
                       yesterday = melbmaxtemp[-length(melbmaxtemp)])
    plot(today ~ yesterday, data = melb,
         xlab = "Yesterday's Max Temperature",
         ylab = "Today's Max Temperature", cex = 1.4, type = "n")
    points(today ~ yesterday, data = melb, pch = 0, cex = 0.50, col = "blue")
    abline(a = 0, b = 1, lty = 3)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package VGAM version 1.0-4 Index]