Datafiles
- 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
- Excerpt:
- Holiday_shopping Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Confidence Intervals for Proportions
- Source: Data adapted from real spending data from American Express
- Number of Cases: 500
- Excerpt:
- 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_20050,] set.seed(1000) amex.samp=sample(subset(amex.reasonable,!(Dec_20044000)),750)
- Number of Cases: 750
- Excerpt:
- Home_depot_sales Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Nonparametric Methods, Regression
- Source: corporate reports
- Number of Cases: 40
- Excerpt:
- Home_Price_Index_2017 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Displaying Quantitative Data, Summarizing Quantitative Data
- Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- Number of Cases: 366
- Excerpt:
- Hopkins_Forest Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Boxplots, Comparing Groups, Correlation, Data Display, Indicator Variables, Multiple Regression, Outliers, Partial Regression Plots, Re-expression, Regression, Residuals, Scatterplot, Summaries
- Source: hmf.williams.edu/researchacademics/data/
- Number of Cases: 365
- Excerpt: The Hopkins Memorial Forest is a 2500-acre reserve in Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont managed by the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies (CES). As part of its mission, the CES monitors forest resources and conditions over the long term.
- Hormones Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Nonparametric Methods
- Source: Coates JM, HerbertJ. PNAS 2008;105:6167–6172. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. Reproduced by the permission of National Academy of Sciences.)
- Number of Cases: 17
- Excerpt: Canadian researcher John Coates took saliva samples in the morning, twice a day for eight days, from 17 men working on a London mid-size trading f loor (trading a wide range of assets, with largest exposure to German interest rate futures), in June 2005, and classified each trader according to whether his testosterone level was […]
- Hot_dogs Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Multiple Regression Inference, Regression, Regression Inference
- Source: Consumer Reports
- Number of Cases: 13
- Excerpt: Facts about hot dogs as reported by Consumer Reports. How do they relate to each other?
- Hotel_maids Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods:
- Source: Crum, Alia J., and Ellen J. Langer. 2007. Mind-set matters: Exercise and the placebo effect. Psychological Science 18, no. 2: 165-171.Published Version doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01867.x Citable Link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3196007
- Number of Cases: 75
- Excerpt: A Harvard psychologist recruited 75 female hotel maids to participate in a study. She randomly selected 41 of them, whom she informed (truthfully) that the work they do satisfies the Surgeon General’s recommendations for an active lifestyle, providing examples to show that their work is good exercise. The other 34 were told nothing. Various characteristics, […]
- Housing_prices Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Correlation, Indicator Variables, Multiple Regression, Partial Regression Plots, Re-expression, Regression, Scatterplot
- Source: random sample of 1057 houses taken from full Saratoga Housing Data (De Veaux)
- Number of Cases: 1057
- Excerpt: House prices and properties in New York. What properties of a house can predict its price? Can we use such a model to identify houses that are extraordinarily expensive or inexpensive?