canadaTemp              package:assist              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The 'canadaTemp' data frame has 420 rows and 3 columns of data for
     monthly mean temperatures in Canada

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(canadaTemp)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The data frame contains the following columns:

     temp a numeric vector of mean temperatures at some stations in
     Canada. 

     month a vector of integers from 1 to 12 represeting the months in
     a year.

     station a vetor of integers from 1 to 35 indicating the sations
     where the temperatures were recorded.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     The data set was downloaded from <URL:
     http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/faculty/ramsay/datasets.html>.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Ramsay, J. O and Silverman, B. W. (1997). Functional Data
     Analysis. New York:Springer.

     Ke, C. and Wang, Y. (2001). Semi-parametric Nonlinear Mixed
     Effects Models and Their Applications. JASA 96:1272-1298.

