Datafiles

  • Fertility_and_life_expectancy_2014 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Regression
  • Source: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN for life expectancy at birthhttp://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN for fertility rates
  • Number of Cases: 219
  • Excerpt: Fertility (births/woman) and Female life expectancy for 219 countries of the world. (Data is available on both variables for only 200). How is life expectancy related to fertility? Are there any outliers and, if so, what do they indicate?


  • Fertility_and_life_expectancy_2018 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Outliers, Re-expression, Regression, Residuals
  • Source: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN for life expectancy at birth http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN for fertility rates
  • Number of Cases: 198
  • Excerpt: Fertility (births/woman) and Female life expectancy for 219 countries of the world. (Data is available on both variables for only 200). How is life expectancy related to fertility? Are there any outliers and, if so, what do they indicate?


  • Fertilizers Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Analysis of Variance
  • Source: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/R/donnees/criminals1902.txtGarson, J.G. (1900) The metric system of identification of criminals, as used in in Great Britain and Ireland. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 30, 161–198. MacDonell, W.R. (1902) On criminal anthropometry and the identification of criminals. Biometrika 1, 2, 177–227. Student (1908) The probable error of a mean. Biometrika 6, 1–25.
  • Number of Cases: 120
  • Excerpt: A biology student studied the effect of10 different fertilizers on the growth of mung bean sprouts. She sprouts 12 beans in each of 10 different petri dishes, and adds the same amount of fertilizer to each dish. After one week she measures the heights of the 120 sprouts in millimeters.


  • Financial.and.Education Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Chi Square Tests
  • Source: Pew Research
  • Number of Cases: 6860
  • Excerpt: Might your childhood household financial situation impact your education attainment later on in life? In 2019, Pew Research Center conducted a survey of 6860 randomly selected American adults. The respondents were asked to rate their household financial situations while growing up. The data shows their responses, broken down by education level of the respondent.


  • Fingers_and_Heights Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Confidence Intervals for Means
  • Source: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/R/donnees/criminals1902.txtGarson, J.G. (1900) The metric system of identification of criminals, as used in in Great Britain and Ireland. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 30, 161–198. MacDonell, W.R. (1902) On criminal anthropometry and the identification of criminals. Biometrika 1, 2, 177–227. Student (1908) The probable error of a mean. Biometrika 6, 1–25.
  • Number of Cases: 3000
  • Excerpt: Gossett says in his seminal 1908 paper: “Before I had succeeded in solving my problem analytically, I had endeavoured to do so empirically. The material used was a correlation table containing the height and left middle finger measurements of 3000 criminals, from a paper by W. R. MacDonell (Biometrika, Vol. I., p. 219).” His method […]




  • Fish_diet Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Chi Square Tests, Conditional Distribution, Contingency Tables, Tables
  • Source: Lancet, June 2001, “Fatty Fish Consumption and Risk of Prostate Cancer,”
  • Number of Cases: 6272
  • Excerpt: Medical researchers followed 6272 Swedish men for 30 years to see whether there was any association between the amount of fish in their diet and prostate cancer. The original study actually used pairs of twins, which enabled the researchers to discern that the risk of cancer for those who never ate fish actually was substantially […]


  • Fisher’s_Irises Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Inference
  • Source: Fisher, R. A. (1936). The Use of Multiple Measurements in Axonomic Problems. Annals of Eugenics 7, 179-188.
  • Number of Cases: 150
  • Excerpt: In 1936 Sir Ronald Fisher presented data on irises as the example in a famous statistics paper. Ever since, “Fisher’s Iris data” have been a feature of statistics texts. Fisher presents 4 measurements of Iris flowers of three species. Can we differentiate the species? If so, how best to do that?






  • Flights_2016 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Correlation, Regression, Scatterplot
  • Source: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=2
  • Number of Cases: 17
  • Excerpt: The data give the number of domestic U.S. flights flown in each year from 2000 to 2016


  • Flights_2019 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Correlation, Re-expression, Scatterplot
  • Source: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=2
  • Number of Cases: 20
  • Excerpt: The data give the number of domestic U.S. flights flown in each year from 2000 to 2016