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  • Music_library Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Boxplots, Comparing Groups, Outliers, Re-expression
  • Source: Class survey De Veaux Stat 201
  • Number of Cases: 192
  • Excerpt: Students in an introductory statistics course were asked how many songs theyhad in their digital music library.




  • Mutual_fund_returns_2017 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Comparing Two Groups, Correlation, Regression, Scatterplot
  • Source: http://news.morningstar.com/fund-category-returns/
  • Number of Cases: 98
  • Excerpt: Mutual fund returns for a sample of mutual funds sampled in 2017. These are a good source of data for paired methods.


  • Mutual_funds_2016 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Displaying Quantitative Data, Summarizing Quantitative Data
  • Source: http://time.com/money/4616747/best-mutual-funds-etfs-money-50/
  • Number of Cases: 50
  • Excerpt: On December 30, 2016, the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 index hit an all-time high. During 2016, the S&P returned 12.25%. Here is a histogram of the 2016 net returns (total return – annual expenses) for Money Magazine’s 50 Best Mutual Funds and ETFs. The net returns are computed from the data given by Money […]


  • Nail_polish Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Experiment Design, Experiments
  • Source: personal communication
  • Number of Cases: 30
  • Excerpt: A student, preparing for a triathlon, suspected that the 45 minutes each day she spent training in a chlorinated pool was damaging her nail polish. She wished to investigate whether the color of the nail polish might make a difference. She mounted acrylic nails on sticks and polished them with two different color nail polishes. […]






  • Nashville Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Hypothesis Tests, Hypothesis Tests for Means, Statistical Inference
  • Source: unknown
  • Number of Cases: 70
  • Excerpt: A hospital in Nashville is considering changes to the prenatal care they offer. They collected the gestation times of 70 pregnancies that ended in live births. The established human gestation time is 266 days.




  • Nenana_2017 Download .TXT file Open in Data Desk ?
  • Methods: Regression
  • Source: Nenana Ice Classic 2011. Nenana Ice Classic: Tanana River Ice Annual Breakup Dates, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/DURFYP131STS. [Date Accessed]. Note: Our dates are 1 day lower than these dates. We count days after Jan 1.
  • Number of Cases: 102
  • Excerpt: Every spring since 1917, Nenana, Alaska, has hosted a contest in which participants try to guess the exact time that a wooden tripod placed on the frozen Tanana River will fall through the breaking ice. Hundreds of thousands of people now enter their guesses on the Internet and vie for as much as $300,000 in […]