Datafiles



  • F-stops Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Correlation, Re-expression, Scatterplot
  • Source: http://garsteckphotography.blogspot.com/2011/04/using-manual-settings-must-know.html
  • Number of Cases: 8
  • Excerpt: Some camera lenses have an adjustable aperture, the hole that lets the light in. The size of the aperture is expressed in a mysterious number called the f/stop. Each increase of one f/stop number corresponds to a halving of the light that is allowed to come through. When you halve the shutter speed, you cut […]


  • Farmed_salmon Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Confidence Intervals for Means, Hypothesis Tests, Hypothesis Tests for Means, Statistical Inference
  • Source: Ronald A. Hites, Jeffery A. Foran, David O. Carpenter, M. Coreen Hamilton, Barbara A. Knuth, and Steven J. Schwager, “Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon,” Science 9 January 2004: Vol. 303, no. 5655, pp. 226–229
  • Number of Cases: 153
  • Excerpt: In 2004, a team of researchers published a study of contaminants in farmed salmon. Fish from many sources were analyzed for 14 organic contaminants. The study expressed concerns about the level of contaminants found. One of those was the insecticide mirex, which has been shown to be carcinogenic and is suspected to be toxic to […]




  • Female_president Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Regression
  • Source: Ronald A. Hites, Jeffery A. Foran, David O. Carpenter, M. Coreen Hamilton, Barbara A. Knuth, and Steven J. Schwager, “Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon,” Science 9 January 2004: Vol. 303, no. 5655, pp. 226–229
  • Number of Cases: 16
  • Excerpt:


  • Fertility and Life expectancy 2024 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Regression
  • 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: 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_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 […]