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\name{gravity}\alias{gravity}\alias{grav}\title{Acceleration Due to Gravity}\description{The \code{gravity} data frame has 81 rows and 2 columns.The \code{grav} data set has 26 rows and 2 columns.Between May 1934 and July 1935, the National Bureau of Standards inWashington D.C. conducted a series of experiments to estimate theacceleration due to gravity, \emph{g}, at Washington. Each experimentproduced a number of replicate estimates of \emph{g} using the samemethodology. Although the basic method remained the same for allexperiments, that of the reversible pendulum, there were changes inconfiguration.The \code{gravity} data frame contains the data from all eightexperiments. The \code{grav} data frame contains the data from theexperiments 7 and 8. The data are expressed as deviations from 980.000in centimetres per second squared.}\usage{gravity}\format{This data frame contains the following columns:\describe{\item{\code{g}}{The deviation of the estimate from 980.000 centimetres per second squared.}\item{\code{series}}{A factor describing from which experiment the estimate was derived.}}}\source{The data were obtained fromCressie, N. (1982) Playing safe with misweighted means.\emph{Journal of the American Statistical Association}, \bold{77}, 754--759.}\references{Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997)\emph{Bootstrap Methods and Their Application}. Cambridge University Press.}\keyword{datasets}% Converted by Sd2Rd version 1.15.