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Dataset Example: Trying To Be Random in Selecting Numbers for Lotto

This article presents data for examining the ability of individuals to choose numbers randomly. Three datasets of six-tuples selected by a lottery game, generated by S-Plus, and chosen by college students can be compared using descriptive statistics and goodness of fit tests to explore bias and randomness. Key Words: Boxplots; Chi-squared tests; Minimum gap; QQ plots.

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Dataset: Career Records for All Modern Position Players Eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall

The dataset described in this article contains data on retired Major League Baseball players, eligible for the MLB Hall of Fame. The data can be used to illustrate descriptive statistical methods (numerical, graphical, and tabular) or inferential statistics (hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, etc.). The data is in .dat format.

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Data Collection: NFL Scores and Pointspreads

The datasets described in this article contain information for all National Football League (NFL)regular season and playoff games played from 1993 to 1996. In addition to game scores, the data give oddsmakers' pointspreads and over/under values for each game. Key Words: Predictions; Wagering.

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Dataset Example: What's Normal? -- Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate

This article describes a dataset on body temperature, gender, and heart rate. It addresses concepts like true means, confidence intervals, t-statistics, t-tests, the normal distribution, and regression.

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Dataset Example: 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 could be particularly interesting cases and that data displays may differ in their ability to reveal interesting data structure. Key Words: Inliers; Interpretation in context.

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Dataset Example: The Statistics of Poverty and Inequality

This dataset contains a number of variables like birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, and Gross National Product for 97 countries. Suggested activities are geared toward non-mathematicians and include exploratory graphical analyses to answer several central questions. Key words: boxplot, scatterplot, population growth

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Dataset Example: Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy

This article describes a dataset on life expectancies, densities of people per television set, and densities of people per physician in various countries of the world. The example addresses correlation versus causation and data transformations. Key Word: Prediction.

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Dataset Example: Using EDA, ANOVA and Regression to Optimise some Microbiology Data

This article describes a dataset containing information on bacterium culturing. Students can use graphical methods, one-way and two-way ANOVA, and multiple polynomial regression to estimate the optimal conditions for bacteria growth. Key Words: Analysis of variance; Exploratory data analysis; Interactions; Optimisation; Outlier.

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Dataset Example: What Does It Take to Heat a New Room? Estimating Utility Demand in a Home

This article describes a dataset containing energy use data for single-family homes and monthly weather data in the Boston area over a seven year period. The data can help illustrate concepts like central tendency, dispersion, time series analysis, correlation, simple and multiple regression, and variable transformations. Key Words: measurement; forecasting.

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Data Collection: Data Matters with Excel: Estimating Population Variance

This activity uses Microsoft Excel to estimate the population variance of grouped data two ways: the variance within a group and the variance between groups. This activity accompanies Section 7.3 of Data Matters.

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Undergraduate students

Dataset Example: Trying To Be Random in Selecting Numbers for Lotto

Dataset: Career Records for All Modern Position Players Eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall

Data Collection: NFL Scores and Pointspreads

Dataset Example: What's Normal? -- Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate

Dataset Example: A Dataset that is 44% Outliers

Dataset Example: The Statistics of Poverty and Inequality

Dataset Example: Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy

Dataset Example: Using EDA, ANOVA and Regression to Optimise some Microbiology Data

Dataset Example: What Does It Take to Heat a New Room? Estimating Utility Demand in a Home

Data Collection: Data Matters with Excel: Estimating Population Variance

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