** Sampling from a Real Estate Database
This material is a detailed exercise for students in introductory statistics. Students are asked to collect a random sample of data from a real estate website; conduct descriptive statistics...

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**Chance Teaching Aids
This is a site that contains a number of types of material that can be used in teaching about chance and probability. Lesson plans, syllabi, suggested activities, and data sets are available. The...

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**Many Eyes
Many Eyes is a beta site created by IBM that encourages users to explore its featured set of tools that can be used to explore data visually. This site has an area for featured data sets and is...

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1993 New Car Data
This dataset describes 93 new cars for the 1993 model year with 26 variables, including price, mpg ratings, and engine size; it also illustrates a broad range of statistical techniques such as...

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2000 Hate Crime Statistics
This is an article which contains background information as well as 14 tables for the hate crime statistics in 2000. The document is divided into methodology, hate crime statistics, and...

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A Dataset that is 44% Outliers
This article describes a dataset of days in office of US Presidents with outliers that are not mistakes or unusually high or low observations. The data illustrate that outliers need not be errors but...

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A Positively Skewed Distribution
This assignment asks students to explore a set of data which is positively skewed. The data come from a survey of college students asking how vulnerable they feel about the loss of a parent.

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A Simple Dataset for Demonstrating Common Distributions
This dataset contains the time of birth, sex, and birth weight for 44 babies born in one 24-hour period at a hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The data can be used for studying some common...

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Additional Datasets for "A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis"
This webpage presents three new datasets to accompany the book "A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis" by Chatterjee, Handcock and Simonoff. The datasets address salaries of...

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Alcohol Interaction Study in Men
This dataset comes from a study of 23 healthy male subjects in a five period crossover study. Each subject followed a randomly allocated sequence of five treatments. Blood samples were collected...

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