mcycle                 package:MASS                 R Documentation

Data from a Simulated Motorcycle Accident

Description:

     A data frame giving a series of measurements of head acceleration
     in a simulated motorcycle accident, used to test crash helmets.

Usage:

     mcycle

Format:

     'times' in milliseconds after impact

     'accel' in g

Source:

     Silverman, B. W. (1985) Some aspects of the spline smoothing
     approach to non-parametric curve fitting. _Journal of the Royal
     Statistical Society series B_ *47*, 1-52.

References:

     Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) _Modern Applied
     Statistics with S-PLUS._ Third Edition. Springer.