  This study appertains to the extraction of estimates for the masses and for
the partial decay widths to pion-nucleon final states of the well-established
(four-star) $s$ and $p$ baryon resonances below $2$ GeV. These estimates are
exclusively obtained from the data contained in the recent compilation by the
Particle Data Group. Only the $N$ ($S=0,I=1/2$) and the $\Delta$ ($S=0,I=3/2$)
states are considered, where $S$ and $I$ denote strangeness and total isospin,
respectively.
