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| Keywords: Michelsonmorley-boxplot.svg Boxplot representing Michelson's data on the speed of light It consists of five experiments each made of 20 consecutive runs 2006-12-28 own User Schutz This data is not from the Michelson-Morley experiment but from Michelson's measurement of the speed of light See MICHELSON A A 1882 Experimental determination of the velocity of light made at the United States Naval Academy Annapolis Astronomic Papers 1 pp 109-145 U S Nautical Almanac Office or S M Stigler 1977 Do robust estimators work with real data Annals of Statistics 5 1055 �1098 Original upload by User Schutz Boxplot representing Michelson's data on the speed of light It consists of five experiments each made of 20 consecutive runs Note that the oblique line is incorrect and probably due to a bug in the Mediawiki software/SVG converter The graphic was created by User Schutz for Wikipedia on 28 December 2006 using the http //www r-project org/ R statistical project The program that generated the graphic is given below; the data and the idea are from the R help page for the <tt>morley</tt> dataset see <tt>help morley </tt> The graph was exported in postscript format converted to SVG using the <tt>pstoedit</tt> command and the layout was slightly modified using Inkscape before upload <nowiki> data morley morley Expt <- factor morley Expt morley Run <- factor morley Run attach morley postscript Michelsonmorley-boxplot ps paper special height 6 width 6 horizontal F par las 1 par mar c 5 1 5 1 2 1 2 1 par font 2 par font axis 2 boxplot Speed ~ Expt xlab Experiment No ylab Speed of light km/s minus 299 000 abline h 792 458 lty 3 dev off </nowiki> New upload by User Mwtoews Boxplot representing Michelson's data on the speed of light It consists of five experiments each made of 20 consecutive runs The graphic was originally created by User Schutz for Wikipedia on 28 December 2006 using the http //www r-project org/ R statistical project The program that generated the graphic is given below; the data and the idea are from the R help page for the <tt>morley</tt> dataset see <tt>help morley </tt> The graph was exported in PDF format converted to SVG using Adobe Illustrator and the layout was slightly modified using Vim before upload <pre> data morley morley Expt <- factor morley Expt pdf Michelsonmorley-boxplot pdf height 6 width 6 par las 1 mar c 5 1 5 1 2 1 2 1 boxplot Speed ~ Expt morley xlab Experiment No ylab Speed of light km/s minus 299 000 abline h 792 458 col red text 3 792 458 true\nspeed dev off </pre> The creator and uploader also believes that this graphic is a trivial work which does not qualify for copyright Reference A J Weekes 1986 A Genstat Primer London Edward Arnold Created with R Box plots famous experiments Michelson-Morley experiment Outliers | ||||
