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  • Dataset: Four Acute Toxicity Studies in Rodents

    This dataset comes from a study of rodents treated with one of 5 or 6 doses of a drug. The proportion of animals that died were recorded. Questions from this study refer to estimating the lethal dosage. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Dataset: Sister Chromatid Exchange (SCE) Study in Mice

    This dataset comes from a study of 10 mice treated with one of 3 doses of a drug. Bone marrow cells were examined and the number of sister chromatid exchanges was recorded for each mouse. Questions from this study refer to the relationship between dosage and chromatid exchange. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Data Collection: Datasets from Drug Research

    This collection of datasets comes from several phases of drug research. Each dataset comes with a full description and questions to answer from the data.

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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: Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer

    This article describes a dataset on the readability of booklets about cancer and the reading levels of patients with cancer. Students should be familiar with scales of measurement, data reduction, measuring center, constructing and interpreting displays, and reaching conclusions in real problems. Key Words: Ordinal data, Means, Medians, Histograms

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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: The "Unusual Episode" Data Revisited

    This article describes a dataset containing information on economic class of passengers and mortality rates from the sinking of the Titanic. The dataset can be used to foster statistical thinking by giving students the data and asking them to determine the source.

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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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