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- Sales_and_profits Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Multiple Regression Inference, Regression, Regression Inference
- Source: A sample from Fortune 500 companies
- Number of Cases: 79
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- Running_heats_London Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Comparing Groups, Test for Difference between Two Groups
- Source: unknown
- Number of Cases: 14
- Excerpt:
- Run_times Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Center, Data Display, Display Quantitative Variable, Shape, Spread, Summaries
- Source: DeVeaux personal communication
- Number of Cases: 236
- Excerpt: Times (in minutes) for one runner to run 4 miles on various courses during a 10-year period.
- Rulers Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Quality Control
- Source: invented
- Number of Cases: 24
- Excerpt: A company that traditionally made rulers and yardsticks is setting up a manufacturing process to make metersticks. Obviously, accuracy is important for their new product. The company runs a 24-hour production process. Using a calibration set of data they found: X = 1.000 R = 0.0016 They took a sample of 3 metersticks each hour […]
- Ruffles Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Confidence Intervals for Means, Hypothesis Tests, Hypothesis Tests for Means
- Source: Unknown
- Number of Cases: 6
- Excerpt: Students purchased 6 bags of Lay’s Ruffles potato chips marked with a net weight of 28.3 grams. They carefully weighed the contents of each bag, recording the weights (in grams).
- Rock_concert_deaths Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Boxplots, Comparing Groups, Outliers, Re-expression
- Source: Crowd Management Strategieswww.crowdsafe.com
- Number of Cases: 164
- Excerpt: Crowd Management Strategies monitors accidents at rock concerts. In their database, they list the names and other variables of victims whose deaths were attributed to “crowd crush” at rock concerts. The data give the victims’ ages for data from a one-year period:
- Rip_currents_2013 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods:
- Source: www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/resources/weather_fatalities.pdf
- Number of Cases: 19
- Excerpt:
- Retail_trade_index Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Regression
- Source: United Nations Statistics Division
- Number of Cases: 43
- Excerpt:
- Regular_gas_2017 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Displaying Quantitative Data, Summarizing Quantitative Data
- Source: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost
- Number of Cases: 132
- Excerpt:
- Receivers_2024 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods:
- Source: https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/player/_/stat/receiving/season/2024/seasontype/2
- Number of Cases: 500
- Excerpt: NFL data from the 2024 football season reporting the number of yards gained by each of the league’s receivers during the regular season.
- Receivers_2019 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Normal model, R-squared, Regression, Residuals, Standard Deviation
- Source: https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/player/_/stat/receiving/season/2019/seasontype/2 The names and teams get stuck together on espn. Copy those into the text file and run it through the python script to get out the correct name and team columns to copy over.
- Number of Cases: 508
- Excerpt: NFL data from the 2019 football season reported the number of yards gained by all of the league’s receivers
- Receivers_2015 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Normal Probability Plots
- Source: http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/receiving/sort/receivingYards/year/2015/qualified/false
- Number of Cases: 483
- Excerpt: NFL data from the 2015 football season reported the number of yards gained by each of the league’s 488 receivers