Arrivals at an intensive care unit

Description

This data set gives arrival times of 254 patients at an intensive care unit during one day.

Usage

data(arrival)

Format

arrival is a list containing the 2 following objects :

times

is a vector giving the arrival times in the form HH:MM

hours

is a vector giving the number of arrivals per hour for the day considered

Source

Data taken from the logiciel Oriana developped by Warren L. Kovach sales@kovcomp.com starting from http://www.kovcomp.com/oriana/index.html.

References

Fisher, N. I. (1993) Statistical Analysis of Circular Data. Cambridge University Press.

Examples

data(arrival)
dotcircle(arrival$hours, pi/2 + pi/12)