A study of how long it takes a driver to vacate his/her spot in a parking lot.
Format
A data frame with 237 observations on the following 12 variables.
- confcar
The type of car that was waiting for the parking spot (or that just drove by). Either a Nissan Maxima, a Lexus or an Infinity Q45. The car is "confronting" the parked car, hence the name of the variable.
- sex
Sex of the driver of the parked car.
- race
Race of the driver of the parked car.
- num
Number of people in the parked car (including the driver).
- horn
The waiting car either did not intrude on the parked car at all, intruded only slightly by driving by, or stopped near the parking spot and waited. In that case the waiting car either honked the horn once, or did not honk at all.
- carval
Book value of the parked car, in dollars.
- month
Month in which the incident occurred.
- day
Day of the week on which the incident occurred.
- miltime
Time at which the incident occurred, in military units. For example, 1130 denotes 11:30AM, while 1350 denotes for 1:50PM.
- time
Time in seconds for the parked car to depart the parking spot.
- ccstatus
Status of the waiting "confronting" car. The Maxima is considered a low-status car, whereas the Lexus and Infinity Q45 are expensive, "high-status" cars.
- valuediff
Difference in value between the confronting car and the parked car, in dollars. The values of the confronting cars were s follows: Maxima: 5200, Lexus: 43000, Infinity Q45: 57000.