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Datasets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, by David S. Moore

Datasets from Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool, by John O. Rawlings

4c.dat (the basic data file)
4c1.dat (includes indicator or "dummy" variables)
4c.txt (the documentation file)

NAME: Pricing the C's of Diamond Stones
TYPE: Observational Regression Analysis Data
SIZE: 308 observations, 5 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 9, Number 2 (July 2001).

SUBMITTED BY:
Singfat Chu
Faculty of Business Administration
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Singapore 119260
fbachucl@nus.sg

93cars.dat (the basic data file)
93cars.txt (the documentation file)

NAME: 1993 New Car Data
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 93 observations, 26 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 1, Number 1 (July 1993).

SUBMITTED BY:
Robin H. Lock
Mathematics Department
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
(315) 379-5960
rlock@stlawu.bitnet

04cars.dat
04cars.txt

NAME: 2004 New Car and Truck Data
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 428 observations, 19 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Roger W. Johnson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East St. Joseph Street
Rapid City, South Dakota
(605) 355-3450
Roger.Johnson@sdsmt.edu

aaup.txt
aaup.dat (comma delimited version)
aaup2.dat (fixed column format version)

NAME: AAUP Faculty Salary data
TYPE: Census (mostly)
SIZE: 1161 colleges, 16 variables

For more information see the file colleges.txt.

SUBMITTED BY:
Robin Lock
Mathematics Department
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
rlock@vm.stlawu.edu

airport.dat
airport.txt

NAME: US Airport Statistics
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 135 observations, 7 variables (5 numeric, 2 character)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
winner@stat.ufl.edu

aptness.dat
aptness.txt

NAME: Evaluating Aptness of a Regression Model
TYPE: Full population of data (all software projects completed by the AT&T data center from 1986 through 1991)
SIZE: 104 observations, 5 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Jack E. Matson and Brian R. Huguenard
Department of Decision Sciences and Management
Tennessee Technological University
Johnson Hall 306
1105 North Peachtree Street
Cookeville, TN 38505-0001
JEMatson@tnech.edu

babyboom.dat
babyboom.txt

NAME: Time of Birth, Sex, and Birth Weight of 44 Babies
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 44 observations, 4 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 7, Number 3 (November 1999).

SUBMITTED BY:
Peter K. Dunn
Department of Mathematics and Computing
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 4350 dunn@usq.edu.au

ballbearings.dat
ballbearings.txt

NAME: Ball Bearing Reliability Data
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 210 records by 11 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 10, Number 3 (November 2002).

SUBMITTED BY:
Chrys Caroni
Department of Mathematics
National Technical University of Athens
GR 157 80 Athens
Greece
ccar@math.ntua.gr

baseball.dat
baseball.txt

NAME: Pay for Play: Are Baseball Salaries Based on Performance?
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 337 observations, 18 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 2 (July 1998).

SUBMITTED BY:
Mitchell R. Watnik
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO 65409-0020
mwatnik@umr.edu

basketball.dat
basketball.txt

NAME: NCAA Basketball Tournament Data
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 1706 Observations, 5 Variables (3 numeric, 2 character)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
winner@stat.ufl.edu

bestbuy.dat
bestbuy.txt

NAME: BestBuy
TYPE: Time series
SIZE: 48 observations with 3 variables, and 18 future projections by Best Buy Corporation with 2 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 11, Number 1 (March 2003).

SUBMITTED BY:
Julie M. Hays
College of Business
University of St. Thomas
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2005
USA jmhays@stthomas.edu

birthtotena.dat (category labels and cell frequencies for three-way table)
birthtotenb.dat (each case on a separate line with indicator variables)
birthtoten.txt

NAME: Simpson's Paradox: An Example From a Longitudinal Study in South Africa
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 1590 observations, 3 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 7, Number 3 (November 1999).

SUBMITTED BY:
Christopher H. Morrell
Mathematical Sciences Department
Loyola College
4501 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210-2699
chm@loyola.edu

body.dat
body.txt

NAME: Exploring Relationships in Body Dimensions
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 507 Observations, 25 Variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 11, Number 2 (July 2003).

SUBMITTED BY:
Grete Heinz
24710 Upper Trail
Carmel, California 93923
USA
goguh@aol.com

Louis J. Peterson
Department of Health Sciences
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, California 95192
USA

Roger W. Johnson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East St. Joseph Street
Rapid City, South Dakota 57701
USA
Roger.Johnson@sdsmt.edu

Carter J. Kerk
Industrial Engineering Program
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East St. Joseph Street
Rapid City, South Dakota 57701
USA
Carter.Kerk@sdsmt.edu

bonds2001.dat
bonds2001.txt
bonds2002.dat
bonds2002.txt

NAME: Barry Bonds' 2001 and 2002 Plate Appearances
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 648 observations, 15 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Jerome P. Reiter
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University
Box 90251
Durham, NC 27708
jerry@stat.duke.edu

CAFE.dat
CAFE.txt

NAME: Senate Vote on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standard
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 100 records, each including a record identifier and 4 variables

The article associated with this data set appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 2 (July 2006).

SUBMITTED BY:
Scott Preston
Department of Mathematics
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
srp@oswego.edu

calcium.dat
calciumgood.dat
calcium.txt

NAME: Calcium, inorganic phosphorus and alkaline phosphatase levels in elderly patients
TYPE: Retrospective chart review
SIZE: 178 records by 8 variables

The article associated with this data set appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 13, Number 3 (November 2005).

SUBMITTED BY:
John P. Holcomb, Jr.
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Ave., RT 1515
Cleveland, OH, 44115-2214
j.p.holcomb@csuohio.edu

Angela Spalsbury
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 4455
angie@math.ysu.edu

cigarettes.dat
cigarettes.txt

NAME: Cigarette data for an introduction to multiple regression
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 25 observations, 5 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 2, Number 1 (July 1994).

SUBMITTED BY:
Lauren McIntyre
Department of Statistics, Box 8203
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8203
mcintyre@stat.ncsu.edu

COE.xls

NAME: Certificate of Entitlement (COE) scheme
TYPE: Observational Time Series Data
SIZE: 265 observations, 6 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 15, Number 2 (July 2007).

SUBMITTED BY:
Singfat Chu
NUS Business School
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Singapore 119260
bizchucl@nus.edu.sg

cycles.xls
cycles.txt

NAME: Major League Regular Season Cases of Hitting for the Cycle for 1901-2004
TYPE: Census (All values from 1901 to 2004 regular seasons)
SIZE: 243 cases, 6 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 15, Number 1 (March 2007).

SUBMITTED BY:
Michael Huber
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA 18014
huber@muhlenberg.edu

and

Andrew Glen
Department of Mathematical Sciences
United States Military Academy
West Point, NY 10996
andrew.glen@usma.edu

diamond.dat
diamond.txt

NAME:Diamond Ring Pricing Using Linear Regression
TYPE: Random Sample
SIZE: 48 observations, 2 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 4, Number 3 (November 1996).

SUBMITTED BY:
Singfat Chu
Department of Decision Sciences
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Singapore 119260
fbachucl@nus.sg

draft70yr.dat (lottery data for 1970 in stacked format)
draft71yr.dat (lottery data for 1971 in stacked format)
draft72yr.dat (lottery data for 1972 in stacked format)
draft70mn.dat (lottery data for 1970 in unstacked format)
draft71mn.dat (lottery data for 1971 in unstacked format)
draft72mn.dat (lottery data for 1972 in unstacked format)
draftalpha.dat (alphabetic lottery data)
draft.txt

NAME: The Draft Lotteries of 1970, 1971, and 1972
TYPE: Randomized
SIZE: Ranks are assigned to each birthdate relevant for the draft in 1970, 1971, and 1972, and a rank is assigned to each letter of the alphabet.

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 5, Number 2 (July 1997).

SUBMITTED BY:
Norton Starr
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Box 2239 Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
nstarr@amherst.edu

electricbill.dat
electricbill.txt

NAME: Electric Bill Data
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 120 observations, 13 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 11, Number 1 (March 2003).

SUBMITTED BY:

Constance H. McLaren
Analytical Department
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
USA
c-mclaren@indstate.edu

Bruce J. McLaren
Organizational Department
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
USA
b-mclaren@indstate.edu

euroweight.dat
euroweight.txt

NAME: The Weight of Euro Coins
TYPE: Fitting distributions to data
SIZE: 2000 observations, 3 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 2 (July 2006).

SUBMITTED BY:

Ziv Shkedy, Marc Aerts, and Herman Callaert
Hasselt University
Center for Statistics
Agoralaan, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
marc.aerts@uhasselt.be

fandata.dat
fandata.txt

NAME: An Experiential Approach to Integrating ANOVA Concepts
TYPE: Designed experiment
SIZE: Data for four experiments (4 variables with 8 observations, 4 variables with 16 observations, 4 variables with 32 observations, 4 variables with 64 observations)

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2002).

SUBMITTED BY:
LeRoy A. Franklin
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47803
USA
LeRoy.A.Franklin@Rose-Hulman.edu

Belva J. Cooley
School of Business Administration
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
USA
Belva.Cooley@business.umt.edu

fat.dat
fat.txt

NAME: Fitting Percentage of Body Fat to Simple Body Measurements
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 252 observations, 19 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 4, Number 1 (March 1996).

SUBMITTED BY:
Roger W. Johnson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057-4001 rjohnson@carleton.edu

fev.dat
fev.txt

NAME: Forced Expiratory Volume TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 654 observations, 5 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 13, Number 2 (July 2005).

SUBMITTED BY:
Michael J. Kahn
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766
mkahn@wheatonma.edu

films.dat
films.txt

NAME: films dataset
TYPE: simple random sample
SIZE: 100 observations, 5 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 1 (March 2006).

SUBMITTED BY:
Thomas L. Moore
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA 50112
mooret@grinnell.edu

fishcatch.dat
fishcatch.txt

NAME: Fish Catch
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 159 observations, 8 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Juha Puranen
Departement of Statistics
PL33 (Aleksanterinkatu 7)
000014 University of Helsinki
Finland
jpuranen@noppa.helsinki.fi

freethrows.dat
freethrows.txt

NAME: Basketball free throws (sequence of successes and failures)
TYPE: Time series of discrete dichotomous data
SIZE: 200 observations, one variable

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 15, Number 3 (November 2007).

SUBMITTED BY:
Stephen C. Adolph
Department of Biology
Harvey Mudd College
301 Platt Blvd.
Claremont, CA 91711
adolph@hmc.edu

friend_or_foe.dat
friend_or_foe.txt

NAME: Data from the Television Game Show "Friend or Foe?"
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 454 observations, 14 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 12, Number 3 (November 2004).

SUBMITTED BY:
David Kalist
Department of Economics
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, PA 17257
dekali@wharf.ship.edu

fruitfly.dat
fruitfly.txt

NAME: Sexual activity and lifespan of male fruitflies
TYPE: Designed (almost factorial) experiment
SIZE: 125 observations, 5 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 2, Number 1 (July 1994).

SUBMITTED BY:
James A. Hanley and Stanley H. Shapiro
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McGill University
1020 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A2
Canada
INJH@musicb.mcgill.ca StanS@epid.lan.mcgill.ca

hats.dat
hats.txt

NAME: Hat measurements, including hat size
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 26 observations, 6 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Roger Johnson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East St. Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
Roger.Johnson@sdsmt.edu

galileo.dat
galileo.txt

NAME: Galileo Motion Data
TYPE: Measurement
SIZE: 7 observations, 2 variables (both numeric)
5 observations, 2 variables (both numeric)

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 3, Number 1 (March 1995).

SUBMITTED BY:
David A. Dickey
Department of Statistics, Box 8203
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8203
dickey@stat.ncsu.edu

hawks.dat
hawks.txt

NAME: 1997 University of Iowa Big Ten Basketball Data
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 18 observations, 4 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 2 (July 1998).

SUBMITTED BY:
Dan Nettleton
924 Oldfather Hall
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0323
dnettlet@math.unl.edu

homerun.dat
homerun.txt

NAME: The 1998 Home Run Race Between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa
TYPE: Census; Time series
SIZE: 163 observations, 21 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 3 (November 1998).

SUBMITTED BY:
Jeffrey S. Simonoff
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
New York University
44 West 4th Street, Rm. 8-54
New York, NY 10012-0258
jsimonoff@stern.nyu.edu

impeach.dat
impeach.txt

NAME: U.S. Senate Votes on Clinton Removal
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 100 observations (Senators), 10 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Alan Reifman
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
College of Human Sciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1162
AReifman@hs.ttu.edu

kidsfeet.dat
kidsfeet.txt

NAME: Foot measurements for fourth grade children
TYPE: Convenience Sample
SIZE: 39 observations, 6 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 1 (March 2006).

SUBMITTED BY:
Mary C. Meyer
Department of Statistics
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-1952
mmeyer@stat.uga.edu

lotto.dat
lotto.txt

NAME: Lotto 6/42 Selections from Individuals, Irish National Lottery, and S-Plus Simulation
TYPE: Six-tuples selected without replacement from {1, 2, 3, ..., 42}, plus a group identifier
SIZE: 234 + 264 + 264 observations, 1 + 6 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 7, Number 3 (November 1999).

SUBMITTED BY:
Philip J. Boland and Yudi Pawitan
Department of Statistics
National University of Ireland - Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Philip.J.Boland@ucd.ie Yudi@ucd.ie

MLBHOF-tab.new.dat (data in tab-delimited format)
MLBHOF.new.dat (data in fixed column format)
MLBHOF.new.xls (data in Excel format)
MLBHOF.new.txt

NAME: Career Records for All Modern Position Players Eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 1419 observations, 27 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 8, Number 2 (July 2000).

SUBMITTED BY:
James J. Cochran
Department of Computer Information Systems and Analysis
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA 71272
cochrajj@econqa.cba.uc.edu

MLBattend.dat
MLBattend.txt

NAME: Major League Baseball Attendance data 1969-2000
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 838 team/seasons (records), 10 variables (fields)

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 10, Number 2 (July 2002).

SUBMITTED BY:
James J. Cochran
Department of Economics and Finance
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA 71272
USA
jcochran@cab.latech.edu

msnbclength.dat
msnbclength.txt

NAME: Length of clickstreams for a random sample of visitors to MSNBC
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 50000 rows, one for each user.
The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 13, Number 3 (November 2005)

SUBMITTED BY:
Juana Sanchez
U.C.L.A.
Los Angeles, California
USA
jsanchez@stat.ucla.edu

Yan He
U.C.L.A.
Los Angeles, California
USA
yanhe@stat.ucla.edu

nascard.dat
nascard.txt

NAME: NASCAR Driver Results
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 34884 Observations, 10 Variables
The article assoicated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 3 (November 2006)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118545
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA
Winner@stat.ufl.edu

nascarr.dat
nascarr.txt

NAME: NASCAR Race Results
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 898 Observations, 16 Variables
The article assoicated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 3 (November 2006)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118545
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA
Winner@stat.ufl.edu

nfl2000.dat
nfl2000.txt

NAME: NFL Y2K PCA
TYPE: Observational, Census
SIZE: 31 observations, 78 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 9, Number 3 (November 2001).

SUBMITTED BY:
Mitchell Watnik
Statistical Laboratory
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
watnik@wald.ucdavis.edu

Richard A. Levine
Department of Statistics
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
ralevine@ucdavis.edu

nfl93.dat
nfl94.dat
nfl95.dat
nfl96.dat
nfl.txt

NAME: NFL Scores and Pointspreads
TYPE: Census (All values from recent seasons)
SIZE: 235 or 251 observations, 8 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 5, Number 3 (November 1997).

SUBMITTED BY:
Robin H. Lock
Mathematics Department
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
rlock@vm.stlawu.edu

nfl98-00.dat
nfl98-00.txt

NAME: NFL Scores for 1998-2000
TYPE: Census (All values from 1998, 1999 and 2000 regular seasons)
SIZE: 736 games, 7 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Robin H. Lock
Burry Professor of Statistics
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science & Statistics
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
rlock@stlawu.edu

nohitters.xls
nohitters.txt

NAME: Major League Regular Season No Hitters for 1901-2004
TYPE: Census (All values from 1901 to 2004 regular seasons)
SIZE: 237 cases, 7 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 15, Number 1 (March 2007).

normtemp.dat
normtemp.txt

NAME: Normal Body Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate
TYPE: Random sample
SIZE: 130 observations, 3 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 4, Number 2 (July 1996).

SUBMITTED BY:
Allen L. Shoemaker
Psychology Department
Calvin College
3201 Burton St. S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49546 shoe@calvin.edu

ocdrug.dat
ocdrug.txt

NAME: Drug Interaction
TYPE: Designed experiment in humans
SIZE: 44 lines, 8 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 12, Number 1 (March 2004).

SUBMITTED BY:
Thomas E. Bradstreet
Merck Research Laboratories
10 Sentry Parkway
Blue Bell, PA 19422
USA
thomas_bradstreet@merck.com

oscars.dat
oscars.txt

NAME: Oscars: Best Actors and Actresses
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 156 observations, 10 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Christoph Maier
Department of Mathematics
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
233 Stright Hall
Indiana, PA 15705
USA
cmaier@iup.edu

outlier.dat
outlier.txt

NAME: A Dataset That is 44% Outliers
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 43 observations, one variable with case labels

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Edcuation, Volume 13, Number 1 (March 2005).

SUBMITTED BY:
Robert W. Hayden
Department of Mathematics
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire
USA
hayden@mail.plymouth.edu

packetdata.dat
packetdata.txt

NAME: Internet traffic data
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 100,001 rows with six columns space delimited with headers "timestamp," "source," "destination," "sourceport," "destport," "databytes."

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 13, Number 3 (November 2005)

SUBMITTED BY:
Juana Sanchez
U.C.L.A.
Los Angeles, California
USA
jsanchez@stat.ucla.edu

Yan He
U.C.L.A.
Los Angeles, California
USA
yanhe@stat.ucla.edu

pig.data
pig.txt

NAME: Data from the game "Pass the Pigs"
TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 6000 Observations, 5 Variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 14, Number 3 (November 2006)

SUBMITTED BY:
John C. Kern II
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
USA
kern@mathcs.duq.edu

poverty.dat
poverty.txt

NAME: The Statistics of Poverty and Inequality
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 97 observations, 8 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 1995).

SUBMITTED BY:
Mary Rouncefield
Mathematics Department
Chester College
Cheyney Road
Chester
CH1 4DF
U.K.

readability.dat
readability.txt

NAME: Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer
TYPE: Two independent samples
SIZE: Two variables, one with 30 observations and the other with 63. The data file contains frequency distributions for the two variables over a common range of grade levels.

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 1995).

SUBMITTED BY:
Thomas H. Short
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Villanova University
Villanova, PA 19085
short@monet.vill.edu
Helene Moriarty
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
University and Woodland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
and
College of Nursing
Villanova University
Villanova, PA 19085

Mary E. Cooley
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
University and Woodland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104

rowing.dat
rowing.txt

NAME: Weights of 1996 US Olympic Rowing Team
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 26 observations, 3 variables (name, event, weight)

SUBMITTED BY:
Beth Chance
University of the Pacific
Math Department, UOP, Stockton, CA 91711
bchance@legendre.cop.uop.edu

sat.dat
sat.txt

NAME: Getting What You Pay For: The Debate Over Equity in Public School Expenditures
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 50 observations, 8 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 7, Number 2 (July 1999).

SUBMITTED BY:
Deborah Lynn Guber
Assistant Professor of Political Science
The University of Vermont
P.O. Box 54110
Burlington, VT 05405-4110
dguber@zoo.uvm.edu

tdf.dat
tdf.txt

NAME: Tour De France Winners (Can Lance Win Six?)
TYPE: Time Series
SIZE: 56 observations, 13 variables

SUBMITTED BY:
Thomas G. Groleau
Carthage College
314 Lentz Hall
Kenosha, WI 53140
tgroleau@carthage.edu

televisions.dat
televisions.txt

NAME: Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy
TYPE: Sample
SIZE: 40 observations, 6 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 2, Number 2 (November 1994).

SUBMITTED BY:
Allan J. Rossman
Dickinson College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
rossman@dickinson.edu

titanic.dat
titanic.txt

NAME: Population at Risk and Death Rates for an Unusual Episode
TYPE: Complete record for all of population at risk
SIZE: 2201 observations, 4 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 3, Number 3 (November 1995).

SUBMITTED BY:
Robert Dawson
Dept.of Mathematics and Computing Science
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 3C3
email: rdawson@husky1.stmarys.ca

triple plays.xls
triple plays.txt

NAME: Major League Regular Season Triple Plays for 1901-2004
TYPE: Census (All values from 1901 to 2004 regular seasons)
SIZE: 513 cases, 10 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 15, Number 1 (March 2007).

Tryptone.dat
Tryptone.txt

NAME: The Tryptone Task
TYPE: Designed experiment
SIZE: 30 observations, 9 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 12, Number 2 (July 2004).

SUBMITTED BY:
Neil S. Binnie
Department of Applied Mathematics
Auckland University of Technology
Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1020, New Zealand
Ph 649-917-9999 x8528
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ushighway1.dat
ushighway1.txt

NAME: US Interstate System I
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 99 observations, 5 variables (3 numeric, 2 character)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
winner@stat.ufl.edu

ushighway2.dat
ushighway2.txt

NAME: US Interstate System II
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 204 observations, 6 variables (2 numeric, 4 character)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
winner@stat.ufl.edu

ushighway3.dat
ushighway3.txt

NAME: US Interstate System III
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 221 observations, 4 variables (2 numeric, 2 character)

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
winner@stat.ufl.edu

usnews.txt
usnews.dat (comma delimited version)
usnews3.dat (fixed column format version)

NAME: U.S. News College data
TYPE: Census (mostly)
SIZE: 1303 colleges, 35 variables

For more information see the file colleges.txt.

SUBMITTED BY:
Robin Lock
Mathematics Department
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
rlock@vm.stlawu.edu

utility.dat
utility.txt

NAME: What Does It Take to Heat a New Room?
TYPE: Time series
SIZE: 81 observations, 13 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 1 (March 1998).

SUBMITTED BY:
Robert Carver
Department of Business Administration
Stonehill College
320 Washington Street
Easton, MA 02357-1150
rcarver@stonehill.edu

vlt.dat
vlt.txt

NAME: Video Lottery Terminal Data
TYPE: Random Sample
SIZE: 345 observations, 5 variables

The article associated with this dataset appears in the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 1995).

SUBMITTED BY:
W. John Braun
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9
CANADA
braun@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca

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