On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the pottery data set which pertains to Romano-British Pottery Data . The pottery data set is found in the HSAUR R package. You can load the pottery data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("pottery"). This will load the data into a variable called pottery. If R says the pottery data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("HSAUR") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the pottery R data set. The size of this file is about 2,118 bytes.

Romano-British Pottery Data

Description

Chemical composition of Romano-British pottery.

Usage

data("pottery")

Format

A data frame with 45 observations on the following 9 chemicals.

Al2O3

aluminium trioxide.

Fe2O3

iron trioxide.

MgO

magnesium oxide.

CaO

calcium oxide.

Na2O

natrium oxide.

K2O

calium oxide.

TiO2

titanium oxide.

MnO

mangan oxide.

BaO

barium oxide.

Details

The data gives the chemical composition of specimens of Romano-British pottery, determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry, for nine oxides.

Source

A. Tubb and N. J. Parker and G. Nickless (1980), The analysis of Romano-British pottery by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Archaeometry, 22, 153–171.

Examples

  data("pottery", package = "HSAUR")
  plot(pottery)

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.