Motorcycle {mffSM}R Documentation

Motorcycle crash helmet impact data

Description

Observations consist of acceleration readings taken through time in an experiment (a simulated motorcycle crash) on the efficacy of crash helmets.

Data are analyzed by Silverman (1985) and reported by Haerdle (1990, Table B.1).

Usage

data(Motorcycle)

Format

A data.frame with 133 rows and the following variables.

time

time [in milliseconds] after a simulated impact with motorcycles.

haccel

head acceleration [in g] of a PTMO (post mortem human test object).

References

Haerdle, W. (1990). Applied Nonparametric Regression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Silverman, B. W. (1985). Some aspects of the spline smoothing approach to non–parametric regression curve fitting (with Discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 47, 1-52.

Examples

data(Motorcycle)
summary(Motorcycle)

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