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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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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: 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: 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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Getting What You Pay For: The Debate Over Equity in Public School Expenditures

This article addresses a dataset on public school expenditures and SAT performance. Key Words: Multiple regression; Omitted variable bias; Partial correlation; Scatterplot.

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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: 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: 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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An Oral Contraceptive Drug Interaction Study

This article describes data from a drug interaction study of a new drug and a standard oral contraceptive therapy. Both normal theory and distribution-free statistical analyses are provided along with a notable amount of graphical insight into the dataset.

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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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Statistical Topic

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

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

Dataset: The "Unusual Episode" Data Revisited

Dataset Example: Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy

Getting What You Pay For: The Debate Over Equity in Public School Expenditures

Dataset Example: Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer

Dataset Example: The Statistics of Poverty and Inequality

Dataset Example: A Dataset that is 44% Outliers

An Oral Contraceptive Drug Interaction Study

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

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