| Abbey |
Daily price returns (in pence) of Abbey National shares between 7/31/91 and 10/8/91 |
| Abc |
Three samples to illustrate analysis of variance |
| Abilene |
Crimes reported in Abilene, Texas |
| Ability |
Perceived math ability for 13-year olds by gender |
| Abortion |
Abortion rate by region of country |
| Absent |
Number of absent days for 20 employees |
| Achieve |
Math achievement test scores by gender for 25 high school students |
| Adsales |
Number of ads versus number of sales for a retailer of satellite dishes |
| Aggress |
Agressive tendency scores for a group of teenage members of a street gang |
| Aid |
Monthly payments per person for families in the AFDC federal program |
| Aids |
Incubation times for 295 patients thought to be infected with HIV by a blood transfusion |
| Airdisasters |
Aircraft disasters in five different decades |
| Airline |
Percentage of on-time arrivals and number of complaints for 11 airlines |
| Alcohol |
Ages at which 14 female alcoholics began drinking |
| Allergy |
Allergy medicines by adverse events |
| Anesthet |
Recovery times for anesthetized patients |
| Anxiety |
Math test scores versus anxiety scores before the test |
| Apolipop |
Level of apolipoprotein B and number of cups of coffee consumed per day for 15 adult males |
| Append |
Median costs of an appendectomy at 20 hospitals in North Carolina |
| Appendec |
Median costs of appendectomies at three different types of North Carolina hospitals |
| Aptitude |
Aptitude test scores versus productivity in a factory |
| Archaeo |
Radiocarbon ages of observations taken from an archaeological site |
| Arthriti |
Time of relief for three treatments of arthritis |
| Artifici |
Durations of operation for 15 artificial heart transplants |
| Asprin |
Dissolving time versus level of impurities in aspirin tablets |
| Asthmati |
Asthmatic relief index on nine subjects given a drug and a placebo |
| Attorney |
Number of convictions reported by U.S. attorney's offices |
| Autogear |
Number of defective auto gears produced by two manufacturers |
| Backtoback |
Illustrates inferences based on pooled t-test versus Wilcoxon rank sum test |
| Bbsalaries |
Baseball salaries for members of five major league teams |
| Bigten |
Graduation rates for student athletes and nonathletes in the Big Ten Conf. |
| Biology |
Test scores on first exam in biology class |
| Birth |
Live birth rates in 1990 and 1998 for all states |
| Blackedu |
Education level of blacks by gender |
| Blood |
Blood pressure of 15 adult males taken by machine and by an expert |
| Board |
Incomes of board members from three different universities |
| Bones |
Bone density measurements of 35 physically active and 35 non-active women |
| Books |
Number of books read and final spelling scores for 17 third graders |
| Bookstor |
Prices paid for used books at three different bookstores |
| Brain |
Brain weight versus body weight of 28 animals |
| Bumpers |
Repair costs of vehicles crashed into a barrier at 5 miles per hour |
| Bus |
Attendance of bus drivers versus shift |
| Bypass |
Median charges for coronary bypass at 17 hospitals in North Carolina |
| Cabinets |
Estimates of costs of kitchen cabinets by two suppliers on 20 prospective homes |
| Cancer |
Survival times of terminal cancer patients treated with vitamin C |
| Carbon |
Carbon monoxide level measured at three industrial sites |
| Cat |
Reading scores on the California achievement test for a group of 3rd graders |
| Censored |
Entry age and survival time of patients with small cell lung cancer under two different treatments |
| Challeng |
Temperatures and O-ring failures for the launches of the space shuttle Challenger |
| Chemist |
Starting salaries of 50 chemistry majors |
| Chesapea |
Surface salinity measurements taken offshore from Annapolis, Maryland in 1927 |
| Chevy |
Insurance injury ratings of Chevrolet vehicles for 1990 and 1993 models |
| Chicken |
Weight gain of chickens fed three different rations |
| Chipavg |
Measurements of the thickness of the oxide layer of manufactured integrated circuits |
| Chips |
Four measurements on a first wafer and four measurements on a second wafer selected from 30 lots |
| Cigar |
Milligrams of tar in 25 cigarettes selected randomly from 4 different brands |
| Cigarett |
Effect of mother's smoking on birth weight of newborn |
| CIsim |
Confidence Interval Simulation Program |
| Citrus |
Percent of peak bone density of different aged children |
| Clean |
Residual contaminant following the use of three different cleansing agents |
| Coaxial |
Signal loss from three types of coxial cable |
| Coffee |
Productivity of workers with and without a coffee break |
| Coins |
Yearly returns on 12 investments |
| Combinations |
Combinations |
| Commute |
Commuting times for selected cities in 1980 and 1990 |
| Concept |
Tennessee self concept scale scores for a group of teenage boys |
| Concrete |
Compressive strength of concrete blocks made by two different methods |
| Corn |
Comparison of the yields of a new variety and a standard variety of corn planted on 12 plots of land |
| Correlat |
Exercise to illustrate correlation |
| Counsel |
Scores of 18 volunteers who participated in a counseling process |
| Cpi |
Consumer price index from 1979 to 1998 |
| Crime |
Violent crime rates for the states in 1983 and 1993 |
| Darwin |
Charles Darwin's study of cross-fertilized and self-fertilized plants |
| Dealers |
Automobile dealers classified according to type dealership and service rendered to customers |
| Defectiv |
Number of defective items produced by 20 employees |
| Degree |
Percent of bachelor's degrees awarded women in 1970 versus 1990 |
| Delay |
Delay times on 20 flights from four major air carriers |
| Depend |
Number of dependent children for 50 families |
| Detroit |
Educational levels of a sample of 40 auto workers in Detroit |
| Develop |
Demographic characteristics of developmental students at 2-year colleges and 4-year colleges |
| Devmath |
Test scores for students who failed developmental mathematics in the fall semester 1995 |
| Dice |
Outcomes and probabilities of the roll of a pair of fair dice |
| Diesel |
Diesel fuel prices in 1999-2000 in nine regions of the country |
| Diplomat |
Parking tickets issued to diplomats |
| Disposal |
Toxic intensity for manufacturing plants producing herbicidal preparations |
| Dogs |
Rankings of the favorite breeds of dogs |
| Domestic |
Rates of domestic violence per 1,000 women by age groups |
| Dopamine |
Dopamine b-hydroxylase activity of schizophrenic patients treated with an antipsychotic drug |
| Dowjones |
Closing yearend Dow Jones Industrial averages from 1896 through 2000 |
| Drink |
Opinion on referendum by view on moral issue of selling alcoholic beverages |
| Drug |
Number of trials to master a task for a group of 28 subjects assigned to a control and an experimental group |
| Dyslexia |
Data on a group of college students diagnosed with dyslexia |
| Earthqk |
One hundred year record of worldwide seismic activity(1770-1869) |
| EDA |
Exploratory Data Anaalysis |
| Educat |
Crime rates versus the percent of the population without a high school degree |
| Eggs |
Number of eggs versus amounts of feed supplement |
| Elderly |
Percent of the population over the age of 65 |
| Energy |
Amount of energy consumed by homes versus their sizes |
| Engineer |
Salaries after 10 years for graduates of three different universities |
| Entrance |
College entrance exam scores for 24 high school seniors |
| Epaminicompact |
Fuel efficiency ratings for compact vehicles in 2001 |
| Epatwoseater |
Fuel efficiency ratings for two-seater vehicles in 2001 |
| Executiv |
Ages of 25 executives |
| Exercise |
Weight loss for 30 members of an exercise program |
| Fabric |
Measures of softness of ten different clothing garments washed with and without a softener |
| Faithful |
Waiting times between successive eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser |
| Family |
Size of family versus cost per person per week for groceries |
| Ferraro1 |
Choice of presidental ticket in 1984 by gender |
| Ferraro2 |
Choice of vice presidental candidate in 1984 by gender |
| Fertility |
Fertility rates of all 50 states and DC |
| Firstchi |
Ages of women at the birth of their first child |
| Fish |
Length and number of fish caught with small and large mesh codend |
| Fitness |
Number of sit-ups before and after a physical fitness course |
| Florida2000 |
Florida voter results in the 2000 presidential election |
| Fluid |
Breakdown times of an insulating fluid under various levels of voltage stress |
| Food |
Annual food expenditures for 40 single households in Ohio |
| Framingh |
Cholesterol values of 62 subjects in the Framingham Heart Study |
| Freshman |
Ages of a random sample of 30 college freshmen |
| Funeral |
Cost of funeral by region of country |
| Galaxie |
Velocities of 82 galaxies in the Corona Borealis region |
| Gallup |
Results of a Gallup poll on possession of marijuana as a criminal offense conducted in 1980 |
| Gasoline |
Price of regular unleaded gasoline obtained from 25 service stations |
| German |
Number of errors in copying a German passage before and after an experimental course in German |
| Golf |
Distances a golf ball can be driven by 20 professional golfers |
| Governor |
Annual salaries for state governors in 1994 and 1999 |
| Gpa |
High school GPA versus college GPA |
| Grades |
Test grades in a beginning statistics class |
| Graduate |
Graduation rates for student athletes in the Southeastern Conf. |
| Greenriv |
Varve thickness from a sequence through an Eocene lake deposit in the Rocky Mountains |
| Grnriv2 |
Thickness of a varved section of the Green river oil shale deposit near a major lake in the Rocky Mountains |
| Groupabc |
Group data to illustrate analysis of variance |
| Groups |
An illustration of analysis of variance |
| Gym |
Children's age versus number of completed gymnastic activities |
| Habits |
Study habits of students in two matched school districts |
| Haptoglo |
Haptoglobin concentration in blood serum of 8 healthy adults |
| Hardware |
Daily receipts for a small hardware store for 31 working days |
| Hardwood |
Tensile strength of Kraft paper for different percentages of hardwood in the batches of pulp |
| Heat |
Primary heating sources of homes on indian reservations versus all households |
| Heating |
Fuel efficiency ratings for three types of oil heaters |
| Hodgkin |
Results of treatments for Hodgkin's disease |
| Homes |
Median prices of single-family homes in 65 metropolitan statistical areas |
| Homework |
Number of hours per week spent on homework for private and public high school students |
| Honda |
Miles per gallon for a Honda Civic on 35 different occasions |
| Hostile |
Hostility levels of high school students from rural, suburban, and urban areas |
| Housing |
Median home prices for 1984 and 1993 in 37 markets across the U.S. |
| Hurrican |
Number of storms, hurricanes and El Nino effects from 1950 through 1995 |
| Iceberg |
Number of icebergs sighted each month south of Newfoundland and south of the Grand Banks in 1920 |
| Income |
Percent change in personal income from 1st to 2nd quarter in 2000 |
| Independent |
Illustrates a comparison problem for long-tailed distributions |
| Indian |
Educational attainment versus per capita income and poverty rate for American indians living on reservations |
| Indiapol |
Average miles per hour for the winners of the Indianapolis 500 race |
| Indy500 |
Qualifying miles per hour and number of previous starts for drivers in 79th Indianapolis 500 race |
| Inflatio |
Private pay increase of salaried employees versus inflation rate |
| Inletoil |
Inlet oil temperature through a valve |
| Inmate |
Type of drug offense by race |
| Inspect |
Percent of vehicles passing inspection by type inspection station |
| Insulate |
Heat loss through a new insulating medium |
| Iqgpa |
GPA versus IQ for 12 individuals |
| Irises |
R.A. Fishers famous data on Irises |
| Laminect |
Median costs of laminectomies at hospitals across North Carolina in 1992 |
| Lead |
Lead levels in children's blood whose parents worked in a battery factory |
| Leader |
Leadership exam scores by age for employees on an industrial plant |
| Lethal |
Survival time of mice injected with an experimental lethal drug |
| Life |
Life expectancy of men and women in U.S. |
| Lifespan |
Life span of electronic components used in a spacecraft versus heat |
| Ligntmonth |
Relationship between damage reports and deaths caused by lightning |
| Lodge |
Measured traffic at three prospective locations for a motor lodge |
| Longtail |
Long-tailed distributions to illustrate Kruskal Wallis test |
| Lowabil |
Reading skills of 24 matched low ability students |
| Magnesiu |
Magnesium concentration and distances between samples |
| Malpract |
Amounts awarded in 17 malpractice cases |
| Manager |
Advertised salaries offered general managers of major corporations in 1995 |
| Marked |
Percent of marked cars in 65 police departments in Florida |
| Math |
Standardized math test scores for 30 students |
| Mathcomp |
Standardized math competency for a group of entering freshmen at a small community college |
| Mathpro |
Math proficiency and SAT scores by states |
| Maze |
Error scores for four groups of experimental animals running a maze |
| Median |
Illustrates test of equality of medians with the Kruskal Wallis test |
| Mental |
Median mental ages of 16 girls |
| Mercury |
Concentration of mercury in 25 lake trout |
| Metrent |
Monthly rental costs in metro areas with 1 million or more persons |
| Miller |
Miller personality test scores for a group of college students applying for graduate school |
| Miller1 |
Twenty scores on the Miller personality test |
| Moisture |
Moisture content and depth of core sample for marine muds in eastern Louisiana |
| Monoxide |
Carbon monoxide emitted by smoke stacks of a manufacturer and a competitor |
| Movie |
Moral attitude scale on 15 subjects before and after viewing a movie |
| Music |
Improvement scores for identical twins taught music recognition by two techniques |
| Parented |
Education backgrounds of parents of entering freshmen at a state university |
| Patrol |
Years of experience and number of tickets given by patrolpersons in New York City |
| Pearson |
Karl Pearson's data on heights of brothers and sisters |
| Phone |
Length of long-distance phone calls for a small business firm |
| Poison |
Number of poisonings reported to 16 poison control centers |
| Politic |
Political party and gender in a voting district |
| Pollutio |
Air pollution index for 15 randomly selected days for a major western city |
| Porosity |
Porosity measurements on 20 samples of Tensleep Sandstone, Pennsylvanian from Bighorn Basin in Wyoming |
| Poverty |
Percent poverty and crime rate for selected cities |
| Precinct |
Robbery rates versus percent low income in eight precincts |
| Prejudic |
Racial prejudice measured on a sample of 25 high school students |
| Presiden |
Ages at inauguration and death of U.S. presidents |
| Press |
Degree of confidence in the press versus education level for 20 randomly selected persons |
| Prognost |
Klopfer's prognostic rating scale for subjects receiving behavior modification therapy |
| Program |
Effects of four different methods of programmed learning for statistics students |
| Psat |
PSAT scores versus SAT scores |
| Psych |
Correct responses for 24 students in a psychology experiment |
| Puerto |
Weekly incomes of a random sample of 50 Puerto Rican families in Miami |
| Rainks |
Rainfall in an area of west central Kansas and four surrounding counties |
| Randd |
Research and development expenditures and sales of a large company |
| Rat |
Survival times of 20 rats exposed to high levels of radiation |
| Ratings |
Grade point averages versus teacher's ratings |
| Reaction |
Threshold reaction time for persons subjected to emotional stress |
| Reading |
Standardized reading scores for 30 fifth graders |
| Readiq |
Reading scores versus IQ scores |
| Referend |
Opinion on referendum by view on freedom of the press |
| Region |
Pollution index taken in three regions of the country |
| Register |
Maintenance cost versus age of cash registers in a department store |
| Rehab |
Rehabilitative potential of 20 prison inmates as judged by two psychiatrists |
| Remedial |
Math placement test score for 35 freshmen females and 42 freshmen males |
| Rentals |
Weekly rentals for 45 apartments |
| Repair |
Recorded times for repairing 22 automobiles involved in wrecks |
| Retail |
Length of employment versus gross sales for 10 employees of a large retail store |
| Ronbrown1 |
Oceanography data obtained at site 1 by scientist aboard the ship Ron Brown |
| Ronbrown2 |
Oceanography data obtained at site 2 by scientist aboard the ship Ron Brown |
| Rural |
Social adjustment scores for a rural group and a city group of children |
| Salary |
Starting salaries for 25 new PhD psychologist |
| Salinity |
Surface-water salinity measurements from Whitewater Bay, Florida |
| Sat |
SAT scores, percent taking exam and state funding per student by state for 1994, 1995 and 1999 |
| Saving |
Problem asset ration for savings and loan companies in California, New York, and Texas |
| Scales |
Readings obtained from a 100 pound weight placed on four brands of bathroom scales |
| Schizop2 |
Exam scores for 17 patients to assess the learning ability of schizophrenics after taking a specified does of a tranquilizer |
| Schizoph |
Standardized exam scores for 13 patients to investigate the learning ability of schizophrenics after a specified dose of a tranquilizer |
| Seatbelt |
Injury level versus seatbelt usage |
| Selfdefe |
Self-confidence scores for 9 women before and after instructions on self-defense |
| Senior |
Reaction times of 30 senior citizens applying for drivers license renewals |
| Sentence |
Sentences of 41 prisoners convicted of a homicide offense |
| Shkdrug |
Effects of a drug and electroshock therapy on the ability to solve simple tasks |
| Shock |
Effect of experimental shock on time to complete difficult task |
| Shoplift |
Sales receipts versus shoplifting losses for a department store |
| Short |
James Short's measurements of the parallax of the sun |
| Shuttle |
Number of people riding shuttle versus number of automobiles in the downtown area |
| SIGN.test |
Sign Test |
| Simpson |
Grade point averages of men and women participating in various sports-an illustration of Simpson's paradox |
| Situp |
Maximum number of situps by participants in an exercise class |
| Skewed |
Illustrates the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test |
| Skin |
Survival times of closely and poorly matched skin grafts on burn patients |
| Slc |
Sodium-lithium countertransport activity on 190 individuals from six large English kindred |
| Smokyph |
Water pH levels of 75 water samples taken in the Great Smoky Mountains |
| Snore |
Snoring versus heart disease |
| Snow |
Concentration of microparticles in snowfields of Greenland and Antarctica |
| Soccer |
Weights of 25 soccer players |
| Social |
Median income level for 25 social workers from North Carolina |
| Sophomor |
Grade point averages, SAT scores and final grade in college algebra for 20 sophomores |
| South |
Murder rates for 30 cities in the South |
| Speed |
Speed reading scores before and after a course on speed reading |
| Spellers |
Standardized spelling test scores for two fourth grade classes |
| Spelling |
Spelling scores for 9 eighth graders before and after a 2-week course of instruction |
| Sports |
Favorite sport by gender |
| Spouse |
Convictions in spouse murder cases by gender |
| SRS |
Simple Random Sampling |
| Stable |
Times of a 2-year old stallion on a one mile run |
| Stamp |
Thicknesses of 1872 Hidalgo stamps issued in Mexico |
| Statclas |
Grades for two introductory statistics classes |
| Statelaw |
Operating expenditures per resident for each of the state law enforcement agencies |
| Statisti |
Test scores for two beginning statistics classes |
| Step |
STEP science test scores for a class of ability-grouped students |
| Stress |
Short-term memory test scores on 12 subjects before and after a stressful situation |
| Study |
Number of hours studied per week by a sample of 50 freshmen |
| Submarin |
Number of German submarines sunk by U.S. Navy in World War II |
| Subway |
Time it takes a subway to travel from the airport to downtown |
| Sunspot |
Wolfer sunspot numbers from 1700 through 2000 |
| Superbowl |
Margin of victory in Superbowls I to XXXV |
| Supercar |
Top speeds attained by five makes of supercars |
| Tablrock |
Ozone concentrations at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina |
| Teacher |
Average teacher's salaries across the states in the 70s 80s and 90s |
| Tenness |
Tennessee self concept scores for 20 gifted high school students |
| Tensile |
Tensile strength of plastic bags from two production runs |
| Test1 |
Grades on the first test in a statistics class |
| Thermal |
Heat loss of thermal pane windows versus outside temperature |
| Tiaa |
1999-2000 closing prices for TIAA-CREF stocks |
| Ticket |
Time to complete an airline ticket reservation |
| Toaster |
Consumer Reports (Oct 94) rating of toaster ovens versus the cost |
| Tonsils |
Size of tonsils collected from 1,398 children |
| Tort |
The number of torts, average number of months to process a tort, and county population from the court files of the nation's largest counties |
| Toxic |
Hazardous waste sites near minority communities |
| Track |
National Olympic records for women in several races |
| Track15 |
Olympic winning times for the men's 1500-meter run |
| Treatments |
Illustrates analysis of variance for three treatment groups |
| Trees |
Number of trees in 20 grids |
| Trucks |
Miles per gallon for standard 4-wheel drive trucks manufactured by Chevrolet, Dodge and Ford |
| tsum.test |
Summarized t-test |
| Tv |
Percent of students that watch more than 6 hours of TV per day versus national math test scores |
| Twin |
Intelligence test scores for identical twins in which one twin is given a drug |