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- Analgesics Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Analysis of Variance
- Source: unknown
- Number of Cases: 27
- Excerpt: A pharmaceutical company tested three formulations of a pain relief medicine for migraine headache sufferers. For the experiment, 27 volunteers were selected and 9 were randomly assigned to one of three drug formulations. The subjects were instructed to take the drug during their next migraine headache episode and to report their pain on a scale […]
- Antidepressants Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Correlation, Re-expression, Scatterplot
- Source: unknown
- Number of Cases: 19
- Excerpt: A study compared the effectiveness of several antidepressants by examining the experiments in which they had passed the FDA requirements. Each of those experiments compared the active drug with a placebo, an inert pill given to some of the subjects. In each experiment some patients treated with the placebo had improved, a phenomenon called the […]
- Apples_and_gas Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Time Series Analysis
- Source:
- Number of Cases: 12
- Excerpt: The price of delicious apples and regular gas are components of the Consumer Price Index. The data give those prices monthly for the year 2006
- Archery Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods:
- Source: http://www.espn.com/oly/summer08/results?eventId=258 (men)http://www.espn.com/oly/summer08/results?eventId=211 (women)
- Number of Cases: 64
- Excerpt: In Olympic Archery both men and women start with a field of 64 qualifiers. Each archer shoots a round of 72 arrows (total possible score: 720) to establish a seeding position. Then they participate in a single-elimination contest. Thus, the seeding round is the only one that provides data for all archers (because some are […]
- Archery_2024 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Confidence Intervals
- Source: Wikipedia
- Number of Cases: 64
- Excerpt:
- Attendance_2016 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Multiple Regression, Correlation, Regression, Test for Difference between Two Groups, Comparing Two Groups, Scatterplot
- Source: Attendance from http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Won and Lost totals from http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2016.shtml
- Number of Cases: 30
- Excerpt: American League baseball games areplayed under the designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers, often weak hitters, do not come to bat. Baseball owners believe that the designated hitter rule means more runs scored, which in turn means higher attendance. Is there evidence that more fans attend games if the teams score more runs? The data […]
- Attendance_2019 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Comparing Groups, Correlation, Indicator Variables, Multiple Regression, Partial Regression Plots, R-squared, Re-expression, Regression, Residuals, Scatterplot
- Source: Attendance from http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Won and Lost totals from http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2019.shtml The road attendance column was created by 'Road Avg'*'# road games'
- Number of Cases: 30
- Excerpt: American League baseball games are played under the designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers, often weak hitters, do not come to bat. Baseball owners believe that the designated hitter rule means more runs scored, which in turn means higher attendance. Is there evidence that more fans attend games if the teams score more runs? The […]
- ATUS Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Boxplots, Comparing Groups, Outliers, Re-expression
- Source: http://www.bls.gov
- Number of Cases: 9593
- Excerpt: The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is an annual survey of Americans over the age of 15 conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov) to better understand how Americans spend their time over the course of a 24 hour period. This is a random sample of 100 (seed = 1) from R.
- ATUS_sample_100 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Confidence Intervals for Means
- Source: http://www.bls.gov
- Number of Cases: 100
- Excerpt: The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is an annual survey of Americans over the age of 15 conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov) to better understand how Americans spend their time over the course of a 24 hour period. This is a random sample of 100 (seed = 1) from R.
- Auto_noise_filters Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Analysis of Variance
- Source: unknown
- Number of Cases: 35
- Excerpt: In a statement to a Senate Public Works Committee, a senior executive of Texaco, Inc., cited a study on the effectiveness of auto filters on reducing noise. Because of concerns about performance, two types of filters were studied, a standard silencer and a new device developed by the Associated Octel Company. Noise is in decibels/10. […]
- Babysamp_98 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods: Confidence Intervals for Proportions, Sampling Distribution
- Source: http://www.nber.org/natality/ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/DVS/natality/ Sample of 200 using set.seed(1) in R
- Number of Cases: 200
- Excerpt: A sample of 200 records from 1998 Baby data from http://www.nber.org/natality/ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/DVS/natality/
- Bacterial_soap Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
- Methods:
- Source: Student project
- Number of Cases: 32
- Excerpt: A student decided to investigate just how effective washing with soap is in eliminating bacteria. To do this she tested four different methods—washing with water only, washing with regular soap, washing with antibacterial soap (ABS), and spraying hands with antibacterial spray (AS) (containing 65% ethanol as an active ingredient). Her experiment consisted of one experimental […]