heptathlon               package:HSAUR               R Documentation

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

     Results of the olympic heptathlon competition, Seoul, 1988.

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

     data("heptathlon")

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

     A data frame with 25 observations on the following 8 variables.

     '_h_u_r_d_l_e_s' results 100m hurdles.

     '_h_i_g_h_j_u_m_p' results high jump.

     '_s_h_o_t' results shot.

     '_r_u_n_2_0_0_m' results 200m race.

     '_l_o_n_g_j_u_m_p' results long jump.

     '_j_a_v_e_l_i_n' results javelin.

     '_r_u_n_8_0_0_m' results 800m race.

     '_s_c_o_r_e' total score.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The first combined Olympic event for women was the pentathlon,
     first held in Germany in 1928. Initially this consisted of the
     shot putt, long jump, 100m, high jump and javelin events held over
     two days. The pentathlon was first introduced into the Olympic
     Games in 1964, when it consisted of the 80m hurdles, shot, high
     jump, long jump and 200m. In 1977 the 200m was replaced by the
     800m and from 1981 the IAAF brought in the seven-event heptathlon
     in place of the pentathlon, with day one containing the
     events-100m hurdles, shot, high jump, 200m and day two, the long
     jump, javelin and 800m. A scoring system is used to assign points
     to the results from each event and the winner is the woman who
     accumulates the most points over the two days. The event made its
     first Olympic appearance in 1984.

     In the 1988 Olympics held in Seoul, the heptathlon was won by one
     of the stars of women's athletics in the USA, Jackie
     Joyner-Kersee. The results for all 25 competitors are given here.

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

     D. J. Hand, F. Daly, A. D. Lunn, K. J. McConway and E. Ostrowski
     (1994). _A Handbook of Small Datasets_, Chapman and Hall/CRC,
     London.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       data("heptathlon", package = "HSAUR")
       plot(heptathlon)

