Powerball Tickets Sold

The number of Powerball tickets sold per day of the week for three years.

Usage

Powerball

Format

A data frame with 7 observations on the following 2 variables.

day

a character vector

millions.of.tickets.sold

a numeric vector

Source

Oster, E. 2004. Dreaming big: Why do people play Powerball? Chance News 13.02.

References

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/chance_news_13.02.html

Examples

Powerball
#>         day millions.of.tickets.sold
#> 1    Sunday                    128.0
#> 2    Monday                    275.3
#> 3   Tuesday                    448.9
#> 4 Wednesday                   1063.5
#> 5  Thursday                    244.4
#> 6    Friday                    468.5
#> 7  Saturday                   1060.9
xyplot(millions.of.tickets.sold ~ day, Powerball)