On 11/04/2012 12:42, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 12-04-11 12:43 AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
<URL: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/datasets/html/morley.html>

"The classical data of Michaelson and Morley on the speed of light"

Can you provide more information about the data? How were they obtained,
etc.? I do not have the book "Genstat Primer" and the nearest location
where
it is available is University of York which is rather far from my
location.

If you can't find the cited reference, I'd try Google. For instance, it
led me to this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelsonmorley-boxplot.svg

which appears to show five series.

Yes, but that is derived from R.

AFAIR the history, Bill Venables got this from Weekes (1986), a book I have only ever seen in Adelaide. A better reference is

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


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