diamond {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Price by size for diamond rings

### Description

A data set on 48 diamond rings containing price in Singapore dollars and size of diamond in carats.

### Usage

    data(diamond)

### Format

A data frame with 48 observations on the following 2 variables.

carat
  A measurement of a diamond's size
price
  Price in Singapore dollars

### Details

This data comes from a collection of the Journal of Statistics Education. The accompanying documentation says:

“Data presented in a newspaper advertisement suggest the use of simple linear regression to relate the prices of diamond rings to the weights of their diamond stones. The intercept of the resulting regression line is negative and significantly different from zero. This finding raises questions about an assumed pricing mechanism and motivates consideration of remedial actions.”

### Source

This comes from http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/diamond.txt. Data set is contributed by Singfat Chu.

### Examples

    data(diamond)
    plot(price ~ carat, diamond, pch=5)

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