On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Marathon data set which pertains to Marathon. The Marathon data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the Marathon data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Marathon"). This will load the data into a variable called Marathon. If R says the Marathon data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") 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 Marathon R data set. The size of this file is about 63,562 bytes.

Marathon

Description

Training records for a marathon runner

Format

A dataset with 1128 observations on the following 9 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Date	Training date
Miles	Miles for training run
Time	Training time (in minutes:seconds:hundredths)
Pace	Running pace (in minutes:seconds:hundredths per mile)
ShoeBrand	Addidas, Asics, Brooks, Izumi, Mizuno, or New Balance
TimeMin	Training time (in minutes)
PaceMin	Running pace (in minutes per mile)
Short	1= 5 miles or less or 0=more than 5 miles
After2004	1= for runs after 2004 or 0=for earlier runs

Details

Information from training records of a marathoner over a five-year period from 2002-2006.

Source

Data from training records of one of the Stat2 authors.

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