A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Abbey | Daily price returns (in pence) of Abbey National shares between 7/31/91 and 10/8/91 |
Abc | Three samples to illustrate analysis of variance |
Abilene | Crimes reported in Abilene, Texas |
Ability | Perceived math ability for 13-year olds by gender |
Abortion | Abortion rate by region of country |
Absent | Number of absent days for 20 employees |
Achieve | Math achievement test scores by gender for 25 high school students |
Adsales | Number of ads versus number of sales for a retailer of satellite dishes |
Aggress | Agressive tendency scores for a group of teenage members of a street gang |
Aid | Monthly payments per person for families in the AFDC federal program |
Aids | Incubation times for 295 patients thought to be infected with HIV by a blood transfusion |
Airdisasters | Aircraft disasters in five different decades |
Airline | Percentage of on-time arrivals and number of complaints for 11 airlines |
Alcohol | Ages at which 14 female alcoholics began drinking |
Allergy | Allergy medicines by adverse events |
Anesthet | Recovery times for anesthetized patients |
Anxiety | Math test scores versus anxiety scores before the test |
Apolipop | Level of apolipoprotein B and number of cups of coffee consumed per day for 15 adult males |
Append | Median costs of an appendectomy at 20 hospitals in North Carolina |
Appendec | Median costs of appendectomies at three different types of North Carolina hospitals |
Aptitude | Aptitude test scores versus productivity in a factory |
Archaeo | Radiocarbon ages of observations taken from an archaeological site |
Arthriti | Time of relief for three treatments of arthritis |
Artifici | Durations of operation for 15 artificial heart transplants |
Asprin | Dissolving time versus level of impurities in aspirin tablets |
Asthmati | Asthmatic relief index on nine subjects given a drug and a placebo |
Attorney | Number of convictions reported by U.S. attorney's offices |
Autogear | Number of defective auto gears produced by two manufacturers |
Backtoback | Illustrates inferences based on pooled t-test versus Wilcoxon rank sum test |
Bbsalaries | Baseball salaries for members of five major league teams |
Bigten | Graduation rates for student athletes and nonathletes in the Big Ten Conf. |
Biology | Test scores on first exam in biology class |
Birth | Live birth rates in 1990 and 1998 for all states |
Blackedu | Education level of blacks by gender |
Blood | Blood pressure of 15 adult males taken by machine and by an expert |
Board | Incomes of board members from three different universities |
Bones | Bone density measurements of 35 physically active and 35 non-active women |
Books | Number of books read and final spelling scores for 17 third graders |
Bookstor | Prices paid for used books at three different bookstores |
Brain | Brain weight versus body weight of 28 animals |
Bumpers | Repair costs of vehicles crashed into a barrier at 5 miles per hour |
Bus | Attendance of bus drivers versus shift |
Bypass | Median charges for coronary bypass at 17 hospitals in North Carolina |
Cabinets | Estimates of costs of kitchen cabinets by two suppliers on 20 prospective homes |
Cancer | Survival times of terminal cancer patients treated with vitamin C |
Carbon | Carbon monoxide level measured at three industrial sites |
Cat | Reading scores on the California achievement test for a group of 3rd graders |
Censored | Entry age and survival time of patients with small cell lung cancer under two different treatments |
Challeng | Temperatures and O-ring failures for the launches of the space shuttle Challenger |
Chemist | Starting salaries of 50 chemistry majors |
Chesapea | Surface salinity measurements taken offshore from Annapolis, Maryland in 1927 |
Chevy | Insurance injury ratings of Chevrolet vehicles for 1990 and 1993 models |
Chicken | Weight gain of chickens fed three different rations |
Chipavg | Measurements of the thickness of the oxide layer of manufactured integrated circuits |
Chips | Four measurements on a first wafer and four measurements on a second wafer selected from 30 lots |
Cigar | Milligrams of tar in 25 cigarettes selected randomly from 4 different brands |
Cigarett | Effect of mother's smoking on birth weight of newborn |
CIsim | Confidence Interval Simulation Program |
Citrus | Percent of peak bone density of different aged children |
Clean | Residual contaminant following the use of three different cleansing agents |
Coaxial | Signal loss from three types of coxial cable |
Coffee | Productivity of workers with and without a coffee break |
Coins | Yearly returns on 12 investments |
Combinations | Combinations |
Commute | Commuting times for selected cities in 1980 and 1990 |
Concept | Tennessee self concept scale scores for a group of teenage boys |
Concrete | Compressive strength of concrete blocks made by two different methods |
Corn | Comparison of the yields of a new variety and a standard variety of corn planted on 12 plots of land |
Correlat | Exercise to illustrate correlation |
Counsel | Scores of 18 volunteers who participated in a counseling process |
Cpi | Consumer price index from 1979 to 1998 |
Crime | Violent crime rates for the states in 1983 and 1993 |
Darwin | Charles Darwin's study of cross-fertilized and self-fertilized plants |
Dealers | Automobile dealers classified according to type dealership and service rendered to customers |
Defectiv | Number of defective items produced by 20 employees |
Degree | Percent of bachelor's degrees awarded women in 1970 versus 1990 |
Delay | Delay times on 20 flights from four major air carriers |
Depend | Number of dependent children for 50 families |
Detroit | Educational levels of a sample of 40 auto workers in Detroit |
Develop | Demographic characteristics of developmental students at 2-year colleges and 4-year colleges |
Devmath | Test scores for students who failed developmental mathematics in the fall semester 1995 |
Dice | Outcomes and probabilities of the roll of a pair of fair dice |
Diesel | Diesel fuel prices in 1999-2000 in nine regions of the country |
Diplomat | Parking tickets issued to diplomats |
Disposal | Toxic intensity for manufacturing plants producing herbicidal preparations |
Dogs | Rankings of the favorite breeds of dogs |
Domestic | Rates of domestic violence per 1,000 women by age groups |
Dopamine | Dopamine b-hydroxylase activity of schizophrenic patients treated with an antipsychotic drug |
Dowjones | Closing yearend Dow Jones Industrial averages from 1896 through 2000 |
Drink | Opinion on referendum by view on moral issue of selling alcoholic beverages |
Drug | Number of trials to master a task for a group of 28 subjects assigned to a control and an experimental group |
Dyslexia | Data on a group of college students diagnosed with dyslexia |
Earthqk | One hundred year record of worldwide seismic activity(1770-1869) |
EDA | Exploratory Data Anaalysis |
Educat | Crime rates versus the percent of the population without a high school degree |
Eggs | Number of eggs versus amounts of feed supplement |
Elderly | Percent of the population over the age of 65 |
Energy | Amount of energy consumed by homes versus their sizes |
Engineer | Salaries after 10 years for graduates of three different universities |
Entrance | College entrance exam scores for 24 high school seniors |
Epaminicompact | Fuel efficiency ratings for compact vehicles in 2001 |
Epatwoseater | Fuel efficiency ratings for two-seater vehicles in 2001 |
Executiv | Ages of 25 executives |
Exercise | Weight loss for 30 members of an exercise program |
Fabric | Measures of softness of ten different clothing garments washed with and without a softener |
Faithful | Waiting times between successive eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser |
Family | Size of family versus cost per person per week for groceries |
Ferraro1 | Choice of presidental ticket in 1984 by gender |
Ferraro2 | Choice of vice presidental candidate in 1984 by gender |
Fertility | Fertility rates of all 50 states and DC |
Firstchi | Ages of women at the birth of their first child |
Fish | Length and number of fish caught with small and large mesh codend |
Fitness | Number of sit-ups before and after a physical fitness course |
Florida2000 | Florida voter results in the 2000 presidential election |
Fluid | Breakdown times of an insulating fluid under various levels of voltage stress |
Food | Annual food expenditures for 40 single households in Ohio |
Framingh | Cholesterol values of 62 subjects in the Framingham Heart Study |
Freshman | Ages of a random sample of 30 college freshmen |
Funeral | Cost of funeral by region of country |
Galaxie | Velocities of 82 galaxies in the Corona Borealis region |
Gallup | Results of a Gallup poll on possession of marijuana as a criminal offense conducted in 1980 |
Gasoline | Price of regular unleaded gasoline obtained from 25 service stations |
German | Number of errors in copying a German passage before and after an experimental course in German |
Golf | Distances a golf ball can be driven by 20 professional golfers |
Governor | Annual salaries for state governors in 1994 and 1999 |
Gpa | High school GPA versus college GPA |
Grades | Test grades in a beginning statistics class |
Graduate | Graduation rates for student athletes in the Southeastern Conf. |
Greenriv | Varve thickness from a sequence through an Eocene lake deposit in the Rocky Mountains |
Grnriv2 | Thickness of a varved section of the Green river oil shale deposit near a major lake in the Rocky Mountains |
Groupabc | Group data to illustrate analysis of variance |
Groups | An illustration of analysis of variance |
Gym | Children's age versus number of completed gymnastic activities |
Habits | Study habits of students in two matched school districts |
Haptoglo | Haptoglobin concentration in blood serum of 8 healthy adults |
Hardware | Daily receipts for a small hardware store for 31 working days |
Hardwood | Tensile strength of Kraft paper for different percentages of hardwood in the batches of pulp |
Heat | Primary heating sources of homes on indian reservations versus all households |
Heating | Fuel efficiency ratings for three types of oil heaters |
Hodgkin | Results of treatments for Hodgkin's disease |
Homes | Median prices of single-family homes in 65 metropolitan statistical areas |
Homework | Number of hours per week spent on homework for private and public high school students |
Honda | Miles per gallon for a Honda Civic on 35 different occasions |
Hostile | Hostility levels of high school students from rural, suburban, and urban areas |
Housing | Median home prices for 1984 and 1993 in 37 markets across the U.S. |
Hurrican | Number of storms, hurricanes and El Nino effects from 1950 through 1995 |
Iceberg | Number of icebergs sighted each month south of Newfoundland and south of the Grand Banks in 1920 |
Income | Percent change in personal income from 1st to 2nd quarter in 2000 |
Independent | Illustrates a comparison problem for long-tailed distributions |
Indian | Educational attainment versus per capita income and poverty rate for American indians living on reservations |
Indiapol | Average miles per hour for the winners of the Indianapolis 500 race |
Indy500 | Qualifying miles per hour and number of previous starts for drivers in 79th Indianapolis 500 race |
Inflatio | Private pay increase of salaried employees versus inflation rate |
Inletoil | Inlet oil temperature through a valve |
Inmate | Type of drug offense by race |
Inspect | Percent of vehicles passing inspection by type inspection station |
Insulate | Heat loss through a new insulating medium |
Iqgpa | GPA versus IQ for 12 individuals |
Irises | R.A. Fishers famous data on Irises |
Jdpower | Number of problems reported per 100 cars in 1994 versus 1995s |
Jobsat | Job satisfaction and stress level for 9 school teachers |
Kidsmoke | Smoking habits of boys and girls ages 12 to 18 |
Kilowatt | Rates per kilowatt-hour for each of the 50 states and DC |
Kinder | Reading scores for first grade children who attended kindergarten versus those who did not |
Laminect | Median costs of laminectomies at hospitals across North Carolina in 1992 |
Lead | Lead levels in children's blood whose parents worked in a battery factory |
Leader | Leadership exam scores by age for employees on an industrial plant |
Lethal | Survival time of mice injected with an experimental lethal drug |
Life | Life expectancy of men and women in U.S. |
Lifespan | Life span of electronic components used in a spacecraft versus heat |
Ligntmonth | Relationship between damage reports and deaths caused by lightning |
Lodge | Measured traffic at three prospective locations for a motor lodge |
Longtail | Long-tailed distributions to illustrate Kruskal Wallis test |
Lowabil | Reading skills of 24 matched low ability students |
Magnesiu | Magnesium concentration and distances between samples |
Malpract | Amounts awarded in 17 malpractice cases |
Manager | Advertised salaries offered general managers of major corporations in 1995 |
Marked | Percent of marked cars in 65 police departments in Florida |
Math | Standardized math test scores for 30 students |
Mathcomp | Standardized math competency for a group of entering freshmen at a small community college |
Mathpro | Math proficiency and SAT scores by states |
Maze | Error scores for four groups of experimental animals running a maze |
Median | Illustrates test of equality of medians with the Kruskal Wallis test |
Mental | Median mental ages of 16 girls |
Mercury | Concentration of mercury in 25 lake trout |
Metrent | Monthly rental costs in metro areas with 1 million or more persons |
Miller | Miller personality test scores for a group of college students applying for graduate school |
Miller1 | Twenty scores on the Miller personality test |
Moisture | Moisture content and depth of core sample for marine muds in eastern Louisiana |
Monoxide | Carbon monoxide emitted by smoke stacks of a manufacturer and a competitor |
Movie | Moral attitude scale on 15 subjects before and after viewing a movie |
Music | Improvement scores for identical twins taught music recognition by two techniques |
Name | Estimated value of a brand name product and the conpany's revenue |
Nascar | Efficiency of pit crews for three major NASCAR teams |
Nervous | Reaction effects of 4 drugs on 25 subjects with a nervous disorder |
Newsstand | Daily profits for 20 newsstands |
Nfldraf2 | Rating, time in 40-yard dash, and weight of top defensive linemen in the 1994 NFL draft |
Nfldraft | Rating, time in 40-yard dash, and weight of top offensive linemen in the 1994 NFL draft |
Nicotine | Nicotine content versus sales for eight major brands of cigarettes |
normarea | Normal Area |
nsize | Required Sample Size |
ntester | Normality Tester |
Orange | Price of oranges versus size of the harvest |
Orioles | Salaries of members of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team |
Oxytocin | Arterial blood pressure of 11 subjects before and after receiving oxytocin |
Parented | Education backgrounds of parents of entering freshmen at a state university |
Patrol | Years of experience and number of tickets given by patrolpersons in New York City |
Pearson | Karl Pearson's data on heights of brothers and sisters |
Phone | Length of long-distance phone calls for a small business firm |
Poison | Number of poisonings reported to 16 poison control centers |
Politic | Political party and gender in a voting district |
Pollutio | Air pollution index for 15 randomly selected days for a major western city |
Porosity | Porosity measurements on 20 samples of Tensleep Sandstone, Pennsylvanian from Bighorn Basin in Wyoming |
Poverty | Percent poverty and crime rate for selected cities |
Precinct | Robbery rates versus percent low income in eight precincts |
Prejudic | Racial prejudice measured on a sample of 25 high school students |
Presiden | Ages at inauguration and death of U.S. presidents |
Press | Degree of confidence in the press versus education level for 20 randomly selected persons |
Prognost | Klopfer's prognostic rating scale for subjects receiving behavior modification therapy |
Program | Effects of four different methods of programmed learning for statistics students |
Psat | PSAT scores versus SAT scores |
Psych | Correct responses for 24 students in a psychology experiment |
Puerto | Weekly incomes of a random sample of 50 Puerto Rican families in Miami |
Quail | Plasma LDL levels in two groups of quail |
Quality | Quality control test scores on two manufacturing processes |
Rainks | Rainfall in an area of west central Kansas and four surrounding counties |
Randd | Research and development expenditures and sales of a large company |
Rat | Survival times of 20 rats exposed to high levels of radiation |
Ratings | Grade point averages versus teacher's ratings |
Reaction | Threshold reaction time for persons subjected to emotional stress |
Reading | Standardized reading scores for 30 fifth graders |
Readiq | Reading scores versus IQ scores |
Referend | Opinion on referendum by view on freedom of the press |
Region | Pollution index taken in three regions of the country |
Register | Maintenance cost versus age of cash registers in a department store |
Rehab | Rehabilitative potential of 20 prison inmates as judged by two psychiatrists |
Remedial | Math placement test score for 35 freshmen females and 42 freshmen males |
Rentals | Weekly rentals for 45 apartments |
Repair | Recorded times for repairing 22 automobiles involved in wrecks |
Retail | Length of employment versus gross sales for 10 employees of a large retail store |
Ronbrown1 | Oceanography data obtained at site 1 by scientist aboard the ship Ron Brown |
Ronbrown2 | Oceanography data obtained at site 2 by scientist aboard the ship Ron Brown |
Rural | Social adjustment scores for a rural group and a city group of children |
Salary | Starting salaries for 25 new PhD psychologist |
Salinity | Surface-water salinity measurements from Whitewater Bay, Florida |
Sat | SAT scores, percent taking exam and state funding per student by state for 1994, 1995 and 1999 |
Saving | Problem asset ration for savings and loan companies in California, New York, and Texas |
Scales | Readings obtained from a 100 pound weight placed on four brands of bathroom scales |
Schizop2 | Exam scores for 17 patients to assess the learning ability of schizophrenics after taking a specified does of a tranquilizer |
Schizoph | Standardized exam scores for 13 patients to investigate the learning ability of schizophrenics after a specified dose of a tranquilizer |
Seatbelt | Injury level versus seatbelt usage |
Selfdefe | Self-confidence scores for 9 women before and after instructions on self-defense |
Senior | Reaction times of 30 senior citizens applying for drivers license renewals |
Sentence | Sentences of 41 prisoners convicted of a homicide offense |
Shkdrug | Effects of a drug and electroshock therapy on the ability to solve simple tasks |
Shock | Effect of experimental shock on time to complete difficult task |
Shoplift | Sales receipts versus shoplifting losses for a department store |
Short | James Short's measurements of the parallax of the sun |
Shuttle | Number of people riding shuttle versus number of automobiles in the downtown area |
SIGN.test | Sign Test |
Simpson | Grade point averages of men and women participating in various sports-an illustration of Simpson's paradox |
Situp | Maximum number of situps by participants in an exercise class |
Skewed | Illustrates the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test |
Skin | Survival times of closely and poorly matched skin grafts on burn patients |
Slc | Sodium-lithium countertransport activity on 190 individuals from six large English kindred |
Smokyph | Water pH levels of 75 water samples taken in the Great Smoky Mountains |
Snore | Snoring versus heart disease |
Snow | Concentration of microparticles in snowfields of Greenland and Antarctica |
Soccer | Weights of 25 soccer players |
Social | Median income level for 25 social workers from North Carolina |
Sophomor | Grade point averages, SAT scores and final grade in college algebra for 20 sophomores |
South | Murder rates for 30 cities in the South |
Speed | Speed reading scores before and after a course on speed reading |
Spellers | Standardized spelling test scores for two fourth grade classes |
Spelling | Spelling scores for 9 eighth graders before and after a 2-week course of instruction |
Sports | Favorite sport by gender |
Spouse | Convictions in spouse murder cases by gender |
SRS | Simple Random Sampling |
Stable | Times of a 2-year old stallion on a one mile run |
Stamp | Thicknesses of 1872 Hidalgo stamps issued in Mexico |
Statclas | Grades for two introductory statistics classes |
Statelaw | Operating expenditures per resident for each of the state law enforcement agencies |
Statisti | Test scores for two beginning statistics classes |
Step | STEP science test scores for a class of ability-grouped students |
Stress | Short-term memory test scores on 12 subjects before and after a stressful situation |
Study | Number of hours studied per week by a sample of 50 freshmen |
Submarin | Number of German submarines sunk by U.S. Navy in World War II |
Subway | Time it takes a subway to travel from the airport to downtown |
Sunspot | Wolfer sunspot numbers from 1700 through 2000 |
Superbowl | Margin of victory in Superbowls I to XXXV |
Supercar | Top speeds attained by five makes of supercars |
Tablrock | Ozone concentrations at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina |
Teacher | Average teacher's salaries across the states in the 70s 80s and 90s |
Tenness | Tennessee self concept scores for 20 gifted high school students |
Tensile | Tensile strength of plastic bags from two production runs |
Test1 | Grades on the first test in a statistics class |
Thermal | Heat loss of thermal pane windows versus outside temperature |
Tiaa | 1999-2000 closing prices for TIAA-CREF stocks |
Ticket | Time to complete an airline ticket reservation |
Toaster | Consumer Reports (Oct 94) rating of toaster ovens versus the cost |
Tonsils | Size of tonsils collected from 1,398 children |
Tort | The number of torts, average number of months to process a tort, and county population from the court files of the nation's largest counties |
Toxic | Hazardous waste sites near minority communities |
Track | National Olympic records for women in several races |
Track15 | Olympic winning times for the men's 1500-meter run |
Treatments | Illustrates analysis of variance for three treatment groups |
Trees | Number of trees in 20 grids |
Trucks | Miles per gallon for standard 4-wheel drive trucks manufactured by Chevrolet, Dodge and Ford |
tsum.test | Summarized t-test |
Tv | Percent of students that watch more than 6 hours of TV per day versus national math test scores |
Twin | Intelligence test scores for identical twins in which one twin is given a drug |
Undergrad | Data set describing a sample of undergraduate students |
Vacation | Number of days of paid holidays and vacation leave for sample of 35 textile workers |
Vaccine | Reported serious reactions due to vaccines in 11 southern states |
Vehicle | Fatality ratings for foreign and domestic vehicles |
Verbal | Verbal test scores and number of library books checked out for 15 eighth graders |
Victoria | Number of sunspots versus mean annual level of Lake Victoria Nyanza from 1902 to 1921 |
Viscosit | Viscosity measurements of a substance on two different days |
Visual | Visual acuity of a group of subjects tested under a specified dose of a drug |
Vocab | Reading scores before and after vocabulary training for 14 employees who did not complete high school |
Wastewat | Volume of injected waste water from Rocky Mountain Arsenal and number of earthquakes near Denver |
Weather94 | Weather casualties in 1994 |
Wheat | Price of a bushel of wheat versus the national weekly earnings of production workers |
Windmill | Direct current produced by different wind velocities |
Window | Wind leakage for storm windows exposed to a 50 mph wind |
Wins | Baseball team wins versus seven independent variables for National league teams in 1990 |
Wool | Strength tests of two types of wool fabric |
Yearsunspot | Monthly sunspot activity from 1974 to 2000 |
z.test | Z-test |
zsum.test | Summarized z-test |