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Hearing Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Analysis of Variance, Inference
Source: Faith Loven, A Study of the In-terlist Equivalency of the CID W-22 Word List Presented in Quiet and in Noise. University of Iowa [1981])
Number of Cases: 48
Excerpt: Fitting someone for a hearing aid requires assessing the patient’s hearing ability. In one method of assessment, the patient listens to a tape of 50 English words. The tape is played at low volume, and the patient is asked to repeat the words. The patient’s hearing ability score is the number of words perceived correctly. […]

Hearing_4_lists Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Analysis of Variance
Source: Faith Loven, A Study of the In-terlist Equivalency of the CID W-22 Word List Presented in Quiet and in Noise. University of Iowa [1981])
Number of Cases: 96
Excerpt: Fitting someone for a hearing aid requires assessing the patient’s hearing ability. In one method of assessment, the patient listens to a tape of 50 English words. The tape is played at low volume, and the patient is asked to repeat the words. The patient’s hearing ability score is the number of words perceived correctly. […]

Heart_attack_charges Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Time Series Analysis, Data Display
Source: Data originally from Medicare, not citable
Number of Cases: 12844
Excerpt: Number of days spent in hospital by patients admitted to hospitals in New York during one year with a primary diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). Data are from public medicare records. Consider the distribution of stays. The data also include the age and sex of the patient and the diagnostic (DRG) code.

Heart_attack_stays Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Center, Display Quantitative Variable, Shape, Spread, Summaries
Source: Data originally from Medicare, not citable
Number of Cases: 5065
Excerpt: Number of days spent in hospital by female patients admitted to hospitals in New York during one year with a primary diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). Data are from public medicare records. Consider the distribution of stays. The data also include the age of the patient

Heights_and_weights Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Correlation, Outliers, Re-expression, Regression, Residuals, Scatterplot
Source: Dave Bock personal communication
Number of Cases: 80
Excerpt: The heights and weights of students in a statistics class were recorded.

Historical_Oil_Prices_2016 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Regression
Source: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_spt_s1_a.htm
Number of Cases: 50
Excerpt: The price (per barrel) of oil has fluctuated over time. Various attempts to model it are generally not successful.

Historical_oil_prices_2020 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Outliers, Re-expression, Regression, Residuals
Source: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/data/browser/#/?id=1-AEO2020®ion=0-0&cases=ref2020&start=2018&end=2050&f=A&linechart=~~ref2020-d112119a.4-1-AEO2020~ref2020-d112119a.41-1-AEO2020&map=&ctype=linechart&sourcekey=0 https://www.google.com/books/edition/International_Energy_Outlook_98/TTZZ0cY86bgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA2&dq=EIA+oil+price+forecast+long-term+1998
Number of Cases: 83
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Holiday_spending Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ^?
Methods: Regression, Correlation, Scatterplot
Source: Data adapted from real spending data from American Expressamex.reasonable=Amex.full[Amex.full$Dec_2004<10000 & Amex.full$Jan_2005<10000 & Amex.full$Dec_2004>0,] set.seed(1000) amex.samp=sample(subset(amex.reasonable,!(Dec_2004<4000 & Jan_2005>4000)),750)
Number of Cases: 750
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