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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: Newcomb's Measurements of the Passage Time of Light</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for newcomb {MASS}"><tr><td>newcomb {MASS}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2> Newcomb's Measurements of the Passage Time of Light </h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>A numeric vector giving the ‘Third Series’ of measurements of the passage time of light recorded by Newcomb in 1882. The given values divided by 1000 plus 24 give the time in millionths of a second for light to traverse a known distance. The ‘true’ value is now considered to be 33.02. </p> <h3>Usage</h3> <pre> newcomb </pre> <h3>Source</h3> <p>S. M. Stigler (1973) Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation 1885–1920. <em>Journal of the American Statistical Association</em> <b>68</b>, 872–879. </p> <p>R. G. Staudte and S. J. Sheather (1990) <em>Robust Estimation and Testing.</em> Wiley. </p> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>MASS</em> version 7.3-51.4 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>