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Michelson's five runs and their means
A hundred speed-of-light measurements in the five blocks he ran them in, with each block collapsed to a single point by its mean.

Source
Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import {
GeomPoint,
GGPlot,
Labs,
ScaleColorDiscrete,
ThemeClassic,
} from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { michelsonRuns } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot
data={michelsonRuns}
aes={{ x: "order", y: "velocity", color: "run" }}
width={640}
height={400}
>
<ThemeClassic />
<ScaleColorDiscrete scheme="tableau10" />
<Labs
title="Michelson's five runs, and where each settled"
subtitle="Twenty measurements per run in faint marks; the solid mark is that run's mean"
x="Measurement, 1 to 100"
y="Speed of light, km/s less 299,000"
color="Run"
/>
<GeomPoint size={2.4} alpha={0.35} />
<GeomPoint stat="manual" fun="mean" size={6} alpha={0.95} />
</GGPlot>
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