Datafiles

  • Credit_card_charges Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Center, Data Display, Display Quantitative Variable, Shape, Spread, Summaries
  • Source: modified from raw
  • Number of Cases: 500
  • Excerpt: A credit card company wants to see how much customers in a particular segment of their market use their credit card. They have provided data on the amount spent by 500 selected customers during a 3-month period and have asked you to summarize the expenditures. (Data are realistic, but disguised for confidentiality.)


  • Crocodile_lengths Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Correlation, Re-expression, Regression
  • Source: Unknown SDM 4
  • Number of Cases: 32
  • Excerpt: The ranges inhabited by the Indian gharial crocodile and the Australian saltwater crocodile overlap in Bangladesh. Suppose a very large crocodile skeleton is found there, and we wish to determine the species of the animal. Wildlife scientists have measured the lengths of the heads and the complete bodies of several crocs (in centimeters) of each […]


  • Crowdedness Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Nonparametric Methods, Outliers, Re-expression, Regression, Residuals
  • Source: Chance magazine article summer 2005 by Vasilescu and Wainer, citing data fromn the United Nations Center for Human Settlements.
  • Number of Cases: 62
  • Excerpt: In a Chance magazine article (Summer 2005), Danielle Vasilescu and Howard Wainer used data from the United Nations Center for Human Settlements to investigate aspects of living conditions for several countries. Among the variables they looked at were the country’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP, in $) and Crowdedness, defined as the average number […]








  • Dairy_sales Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Inference
  • Source: unknown
  • Number of Cases: 12
  • Excerpt: Peninsula Creameries sells both cottage cheese and ice cream. The CEO recently noticed that in months when the company sells more cottage cheese, it seems to sell more ice cream as well.


  • Dalia Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Data Displays
  • Source: Student experiment from De Veaux
  • Number of Cases: 13356
  • Excerpt: Dalia collects data via smartphone from users worldwide. This survey asked (among many other questions) about access to cars and the use of ride-hailing apps