whiteside {MASS} | R Documentation

## House Insulation: Whiteside's Data

### Description

Mr Derek Whiteside of the UK Building Research Station recorded the weekly gas consumption and average external temperature at his own house in south-east England for two heating seasons, one of 26 weeks before, and one of 30 weeks after cavity-wall insulation was installed. The object of the exercise was to assess the effect of the insulation on gas consumption.

### Usage

    whiteside

### Format

The `whiteside` data frame has 56 rows and 3 columns.:

`Insul`
  A factor, before or after insulation.
`Temp`
  Purportedly the average outside temperature in degrees Celsius. (These values is far too low for any 56-week period in the 1960s in South-East England. It might be the weekly average of daily minima.)
`Gas`
  The weekly gas consumption in 1000s of cubic feet.

### Source

A data set collected in the 1960s by Mr Derek Whiteside of the UK~Building Research Station. Reported by

Hand, D. J., Daly, F., McConway, K., Lunn, D. and Ostrowski, E. eds (1993) A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Chapman & Hall, p. 69.

### References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

### Examples

    require(lattice)
    xyplot(Gas ~ Temp | Insul, whiteside, panel =
      function(x, y, ...) {
        panel.xyplot(x, y, ...)
        panel.lmline(x, y, ...)
      }, xlab = "Average external temperature (deg. C)",
      ylab = "Gas consumption  (1000 cubic feet)", aspect = "xy",
      strip = function(...) strip.default(..., style = 1))

    gasB <- lm(Gas ~ Temp, whiteside, subset = Insul=="Before")
    gasA <- update(gasB, subset = Insul=="After")
    summary(gasB)
    summary(gasA)
    gasBA <- lm(Gas ~ Insul/Temp - 1, whiteside)
    summary(gasBA)

    gasQ <- lm(Gas ~ Insul/(Temp + I(Temp^2)) - 1, whiteside)
    summary(gasQ)$coef

    gasPR <- lm(Gas ~ Insul + Temp, whiteside)
    anova(gasPR, gasBA)
    options(contrasts = c("contr.treatment", "contr.poly"))
    gasBA1 <- lm(Gas ~ Insul*Temp, whiteside)
    summary(gasBA1)$coef

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