Data Sets for Mind on Statistics (Utts and Heckard)

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Descriptions of the Data Sets

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  • beans
  • bears-female
  • Cash5
  • ceodata
  • chap4-heights
  • cholest
  • chugtime
  • deprived
  • Fantasy5
  • Fantsy5-99
  • GSS-93
  • GSS-93samp
  • handheight
  • happyface
  • heightfoot
  • idealwt
  • idealwtmen
  • idealwtwomen
  • letters
  • MusicCDs
  • pennstate1
  • pennstate1F
  • pennstate1M
  • pennstate2
  • pennstate3
  • pennstate4
  • pennstate5
  • perhouse
  • physical
  • ProfBooks
  • pulsemarch
  • rainfall
  • sats98
  • signdist
  • sleepstudy
  • speedlimit
  • temperature
  • turkeypop
  • UCDavis1
  • UCDavis1F
  • UCDavis1M
  • UCDavis2
  • UCDchap5
  • UCDwomht
  • wthghtM 
  • YouthRisk 


  • beans

    Fifteen students each put as many beans into a cup as they were able in 15 seconds. All students did the task twice, once with their dominant hand and once with their non-dominant hand. (Source: The authors)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1        Dom             Beans placed with dominant hand 
     C2        NonDom      Beans placed with nondominant hand. 
     C3        Diff               Difference between two hands 
     
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    bears-female

    Age and physical measurement data for n=19 female wild bears. (Source: Minitab, Inc.).

    There are five columns of data::

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Age              age in months 
     C2         Neck            neck girth, inches 
     C3         Length         length of bear, inches 
     C4         Chest           chest girth, inches 
     C5         Weight         pounds
     
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    Cash5

    Data for n = 1,560 plays of the Pennsylvania lottery game called Cash 5. In the game the state randomly picks 5 numbers between 1 and 39. The data are used in an example in Chapter 9. This game is called Fantasy 5 in California and some data for that state are in the dataset Fantasy5
    (Source: Pennsylvania Lottery Commission website, www.palottery.org)

    There are six columns of data::

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         date              Date of game 
     C2         low                Lowest number picked 
     C3         second          Second number in low to high order 
     C4         median          Median of numbers picked 
     C5         fourth            Fourth number in low to high order 
     C6         high               Highest number picked 
     
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    ceodata

    Ages and annual salaries for the CEOs of the 60 top ranked small companies in America in 1993. Source: Forbes, Nov. 8, 1993, "America's Best Small Companies," 
    also at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/ DASL/ Datafiles/ ceodat.html)

    There are two columns of data::

    Column   Name           Description
      C1        Age              age of CEO 
      C2        Salary          annual salary in thousands (There's one missing value.) 
     
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    chap4-heights

    Heights (inches) for 55 females and 45 males. The data are used by the Sampling applet in Section 4.2.  (Source: The authors.) 

    There are two columns of data::

    Column   Name           Description
      C1        Sex              Male of Female
      C2        Height         height in inches 
     
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    cholest

    Cholesterol levels for 28 heart attack patients measured 2, 4, and 14 days after the heart attack, and also cholesterol levels for 30 other patients who did not have a heart attack. (Source: Minitab, Inc.)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1        2-Day           Cholesterol level 2 days after heart attack 
     C2        4-Day           Cholesterol level 4 days after heart attack 
     C3        14-Day         Cholesterol level 14 days after heart attack (9 missing values) 
     C4        control          Cholesterol levels for 30 patients without a heart attack 
     
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    chugtime

    Body weights and the time it takes to chug a 12-ounce beverage for n=13 college students. The data were submitted by a student for a class project. (Source: William Harkness, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Weight          body weight, pounds 
     C2         ChugTime     time to chug, seconds 
     
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    deprived

    Amount of sleep per night and whether person feels sleep deprived for n=86 college students. (Source: Laura Simon, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
      C1        Deprived      Answer to, "Do you feel that you are sleep deprived?" 
      C2        SleepHrs      Self-reported hours of sleep per night 
     
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    Fantasy5

    Data for n = 2,318 plays of the California lottery game called Fantasy 5. In the game, the state randomly picks 5 numbers between 1 and 39. This game is called Cash 5 in Pennsylvania and some data for that state are in the dataset Cash5. (Source: California Lottery website, www.calottery.com)

    There are six columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Date             Date of game 
     C2         Low               Lowest number picked 
     C3         Second          Second number in low to high order 
     C4         Third             Median of numbers picked 
     C5         Fourth           Fourth number in low to high order 
     C6         High              Highest number picked 
     
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    Fantasy5-99

    Data for the n = 365 daily plays in 1999 of the California lottery game called Fantasy 5. In the game, the state randomly picks 5 numbers between 1 and 39. The data in this data set are a subset of the data set Fantasy5. (Source: California Lottery website, www.calottery.com) 

    There are six columns of data:

    Column   Name             Description
     C1         Date              Date of game 
     C2         Low               Lowest number picked 
     C3         Second          Second number in low to high order 
     C4         Third             Median of numbers picked 
     C5         Fourth           Fourth number in low to high order 
     C6         High              Highest number picked 
     
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    GSS-93

    Data are for eleven variables and n = 1,606 respondents in the 1993 General Social Survey, a national survey done by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago Some questions are only asked of about two-thirds of the survey participants, so there is quite a bit of missing data. (Source: SDA archive at UC Berkeley website, http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502) 

    There are eleven columns of data:

    Column   Name         Description
     C1         sex             Sex of respondent 
     C2         race           Race of respondent (White, African American, Other) 
     C3         degree       Highest educational degree received (Five categories) 
     C4         relig           Religious preference (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Other) 
     C5         polparty     Does respondent think of self as Democrat, Republican, Indep. or Other? 
     C6         cappun       Does the respondent favor or oppose the death penalty. 
     C7         tvhours       Hours of watching television on a typical day 
     C8         marijuan     Whether the respondent thinks marijuana should be legalized or not 
     C9         owngun       Whether respondent owns a gun or not (Yes or No) 
     C10       gunlaw         Does respondent favor or oppose a law requiring a permit to buy a gun? 
     C11       age              Age of the respondent 
     
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    GSS-93samp

    n=500 randomly selected observations from the GSS-93 data set. The random selection was done by the authors using Minitab. (Source: SDA archive at UC Berkeley website, http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502)

    There are eleven columns of data:

    Column   Name         Description
     C1         sex             Sex of respondent 
     C2         race           Race of respondent (White, African American, Other) 
     C3         degree       Highest educational degree received (Five categories) 
     C4         relig           Religious preference (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Other) 
     C5         polparty     Does respondent think of self as Democrat, Republican, Indep.or Other? 
     C6         cappun       Does the respondent favor or oppose the death penalty 
     C7         tvhours       Hours of watching television on a typical day 
     C8         marijuan     Whether the respondent thinks marijuana should be legalized or not 
     C9         owngun       Whether respondent owns a gun or not (Yes or No) 
     C10       gunlaw         Does respondent favor or oppose a law requiring a permit to buy a gun? 
     C11       age              Age of the respondent 
     
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    handheight

    Heights and stretched handspans for n=167 college students. Each student decided which of their hands to measure. The data are used for examples in Chapters 5 and 14. (Source: The authors)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Sex               Male or Female 
     C2         Height          Self-reported height (inches) 
     C3         HandSpan    Self-measured stretched handspan (cm) 
     
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    happyface

    Tip percents on restaurant bills for male and female servers who either draw a happy face on the bill or do not in a randomized experiment.The data are used for Example 16.6 and an example in Supplemental Topic S4. (Source: Professor Bruce Rind of Temple University)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Message       HappyFace or None 
     C2         Sex                Sex of server  (Male or Female)
     C3         TipPct           Tip as percent of the bill
     
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    heightfoot

    Heights and foot lengths for n=33 college students. (Source: William Harkness, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         height          Self-reported height, inches
     C2         foot              Self-measured foot length, cm
     
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    idealwt

    Actual weight and ideal weight for n=182 college students. Actual weights were reported by the students The "ideal" weight is the response to, "What is your ideal weight?" The data were collected in the Fall semester of 1999. (Source: William Harkness, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         sex               Male or Female 
     C2         actual           Self-reported weight, pounds 
     C3         ideal             Student's ideal weight, pounds 
     C4         diff                Difference between actual and ideal weights 
     
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    idealwtmen

    Actual and ideal weights for the n=63 males in the idealwt data set. (Source: A subset of the idealwt data set)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         sex               Male for all rows 
     C2         actual           Self-reported weight, pounds 
     C3         ideal             Student's ideal weight, pounds 
     C4         diff                Difference between actual and ideal weights 
     
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    idealwtwomen

    Actual and ideal weights for the n=119 females in the idealwt data set. (Source: A subset of the idealwt data set)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         sex               Female for all rows 
     C2         actual           Self-reported weight, pounds 
     C3         ideal             Student's ideal weight, pounds 
     C4         diff                Difference between actual and ideal weights 
     
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    letters

    A sample of 63 students wrote as many letters of the alphabet, in order as capital letters, as they could in 15 seconds using their dominant hand, and then repeated this task using their nondominant hand. The variables dom and nondom contain the raw data for the results. (Source: Laura Simon, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         sex               Male or Female 
     C2         dom              Number of letters printed with dominant hand in 15 seconds 
     C3         nondom        Number of letters printed with non-dominant hand in 15 seconds 
     
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    MusicCDs

    Responses by n = 24 college students to the question, "About how many music CDs do you own?"  Data are used for Example 2.7. (Source: The authors.)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         CDs              Number of music CDs owned
     C2         Sex               Male or Female 
      
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    pennstate1

    Data from n=190 college students in a statistical literacy class. The survey is described in Section 2.1 of the text, and the data are the basis for several examples in Chapter 2.  (Source: The authors)

    There are nine columns of data:

    Column   Name             Description
     C1         Sex                 Male or Female 
     C2         HrsSleep        Hours of sleep the previous night 
     C3         SQpick           Choice of either S or Q 
     C4         Height            Reported height, inches 
     C5         RandNumb    "Random" pick of a number between 1 and 10 
     C6         Fastest            Fastest speed ever driven, mph 
     C7         RtSpan            Measured stretched right handspan, cm 
     C8         LftSpan           Measured stretched left handspan, cm 
     C9         Form                For SQpick variable, order of listing S and Q on survey form
     
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    pennstate1F

    Data from the n=103 females in the pennstate1 data set. (Source: The data are a subset of the pennstate1 data set.)

    There are nine columns of data:

    Column   Name             Description
     C1         Sex                 Female
     C2         HrsSleep        Hours of sleep the previous night 
     C3         SQpick           Choice of either S or Q 
     C4         Height            Reported height, inches 
     C5         RandNumb    "Random" pick of a number between 1 and 10 
     C6         Fastest            Fastest speed ever driven, mph 
     C7         RtSpan            Measured stretched right handspan, cm 
     C8         LftSpan           Measured stretched left handspan, cm 
     C9         Form                For SQpick variable, order of listing S and Q on survey form
     
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    pennstate1M

    Data from the n=87 males in the pennstate1 data set. (Source: The data are a subset of the pennstate1 data set.)

    There are nine columns of data:

    Column   Name             Description
     C1         Sex                 Male
     C2         HrsSleep        Hours of sleep the previous night 
     C3         SQpick           Choice of either S or Q 
     C4         Height            Reported height, inches 
     C5         RandNumb    "Random" pick of a number between 1 and 10 
     C6         Fastest            Fastest speed ever driven, mph 
     C7         RtSpan            Measured stretched right handspan, cm 
     C8         LftSpan           Measured stretched left handspan, cm 
     C9         Form                For SQpick variable, order of listing S and Q on survey form
     
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    pennstate2

    Data from n=205 students in a statistics class for students in the social and behavioral sciences. The survey was done in the Spring semester of 2000. (Source: The authors)

    There are eight columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Sex              Male or Female 
     C2         EarPrces     Total ear pierces in two ears 
     C3         Tattoo         Does student have a tattoo (Yes or No) 
     C4         CDs             Student's estimate of how many music CDs he/she owns 
     C5         Height         Self-reported height in inches 
     C6         HtChoice     Height student would choose to be if they could choose any height. 
     C7         Looks          On a scale of 0-9, importance of looks (0) versus personality (9) 
     C8         Friends        Sex it's easiest to make friends with (Opposite, Same, No Diff)
     
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    pennstate3

    Data from n=227 students in a statistics class for students in the social and behavioral sciences. The survey was done during the Spring semester of 1997. (Source: William Harkness, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are seven columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Sex               Male or Female
     C2         WtFeel         Whether student feels he/she is Overweight, Underweight, About Right. 
     C3         Friends         Sex it's easiest to make friends with (Opposite, Same, No Diff)
     C4         atfirst            Do you believe in love at first sight? (Yes or No)
     C5         supernat        Do you believe in the supernatural? (Yes or No) 
     C6         xtraterr         Do you think there is extraterrestrial life? (Yes or No) 
     C7         grtpers          Would you date someone with a great personality even if
                                            you did not find them attractive? (Yes or No) 
     
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    pennstate4

    Data from n=75 students in a statistics class for biology and pre-med students The survey was done during the Spring semester of 1999. (Source: Laura Simon, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Phone           Minutes spent talking on phone in typical week 
     C2         Exercise       Minutes spent exercising in typical week 
     C3         BookCost     Amount spent on textbooks for present semester, dollars 
     C4         Sex                Male or Female 
     
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    pennstate5

    Data from n=175 students in a statistics class for liberal arts and social science students The survey was done during the Spring semester of 2000. (Source: The authors.)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         TV                 Hours spent watching television in a typical day. 
     C2         Shower          Minutes spent taking typical shower 
     C3         Sex                Male or Female 
     
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    perhouse

    Persons per household in the United States in Census years from 1850 to 2000. (Source: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999, p. 383 and the U.S. Census Bureau)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         year             year of Census 
     C2         perhouse     Persons per household in U.S. 
     
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    physical

    Physical measurements for n=55 college students. Measurements were made by the students during a class activity. (Source: William Harkness, Pennsylvania State University.)

    There are ten columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Sex               Male or Female 
     C2         Height          Self-reported height, inches 
     C3         LeftArm       Length of left forearm, cm 
     C4         RtArm          Length of right forearm, cm 
     C5         LeftFoot       Length of left foot, cm 
     C6         RtFoot          Length of right foot, cm 
     C7         LeftHand     Width of left palm, cm 
     C8         RtHand        Width of right palm, cm 
     C9         HeadCirc      Head circumference, cm 
     C10       nose               Nose length, cm 
     
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    ProfBooks

    Number of pages, price, and whether the book is hardcover or softcover for n=15 books on a professor's bookshelf. (Source: The authors)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Pages            Number of pages in book 
     C2         Price              Cost of book, dollars 
     C3         Type              Type of book (Hardcover or Softcover) 
     
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    pulsemarch

    Students in a statistics class measured their pulse rates before and after marching in place for one minute. The sample size is n = 40.   (Source: Laura Simon, Pennsylvania State University)

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Sex               Male or Female
     C2         Before          Pulse rate before marching in place
     C3         After              Pulse rate after marching in place for one minute
       
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    rainfall

    Annual rainfall in inches in Davis, California from 1951 to 1997. The data ae used for Example 2.9.

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name            Description
     C1         Year               Ranges from 1951 to 1997.
     C2         Rainfall         Annual rainfall in inches
       
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    sats98

    For the 50 States and the District of Columbia, the statewide mean verbal and math SAT scores in 1998. The data set also includes the estimated percent of high graduates who took the SAT in each state. (Source: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999, p. 245)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         State            State abbreviation 
     C2         Verbal          Mean verbal SAT in state 
     C3         Math            Mean math SAT in state 
     C4         PctTook       Percent of graduates who took the SAT 
     
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    signdist

    For n=30 drivers, the driver's age and the maximum distance at which the driver can read a highway sign at nigh. The data are used in examples in Chapters 5 and 14. (Source: Based on data collected by Last Resource, Inc., Bellefonte, PA)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
      C1        Age              Driver's age 
      C2        Distance      Distance at which sign can be read, feet. 
     
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    sleepstudy

    Hours of sleep the previous and hours of studying the previous day for n=116 students The data are used for a correlation example in Chapter 5.. (Source: The authors)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Sleep           Hours of sleep the previous day 
     C2         Study           Hours of studying the previous day.                   
     
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    speedlimit

    Highway death rates (per 100 million vehicle miles of travel) and maximum speed limits in 10 countries. (Source: "Fifty-five mph speed limit is no safety guarantee," D. J. Rivkin, New York Times (letters to the editor), Nov. 25, 1986, p. 26.) 

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         country
     C2         death            Highway accident death rate per 100 million miles of travel 
     C3         limit              Maximum speed limit 
     
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    temperature

    Geographic latitude and mean temperature in January, April, and August for 20 cities in the United States. (Source: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999, p. 220 and p. 456)

    There are five columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         city               City name 
     C2         latitude         Geographic latitude of city 
     C3         JanTemp      Mean January temperature, Fahrenheit 
     C4         AprTemp      Mean April temperature, Fahrenheit  
     C5         AugTemp     Mean August temperature, Fahrenheit 
     
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    turkeypop

    Data from an experiment done to examine the "anchoring" effect, which is that a person's estimate of a quantity is influenced by numbers given in prior questions. At a conference for teachers of business statistics, n = 45 participants were randomized to two experimental groups. One group answered the question "Do you think the population of Turkey is more than 10 million?"  The other group answered the question " Do you think the population of Turkey is more than 70 million?" All participants were then asked to estimate the population of Turkey, to the nearest million. If the anchoring effect holds, participants asked if the population is more than 70 million would tend to give higher estimates than those who were asked if it is more than 10 million. (Source: The authors)

    There are two columns of data:

    Column   Name           Description
     C1         Form            The value given in the first question asked (either 10 or 70).
     C2         Estimate      Participants estimate of the population of Turkey (millions) 
     
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    UCDavis1

    Data from n=173 college students in two different statistics classes. One class was for students not in the liberal arts (n=148), while the other class was for students in the liberal arts (n=25). The data were collected in the Spring quarter of 2000. (Source: The authors)

    There are twelve columns of data:

    Column    Name           Description
     C1         Sex               Male or Female
     C2         TV                Hours spent watching television each week. 
     C3         computer      Hours spent at a computer each week. 
     C4         Sleep            Hours of sleep previous night. 
     C5         Seat              Typical classroom seat location (Front Middle Back) 
     C6         alcohol          Number of alcoholic beverages consumed each week 
     C7         Height           Self-reported height, inches 
     C8         momheight    Mother's height, inches 
     C9         dadheight      Father's height, inches 
     C10       exercise        Hours spent exercising each week 
     C11       GPA              Student's GPA 
     C12       class              Liberal Arts or Non Liberal Arts 
     
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    UCDavis1F

    Data for the n=94 females in the UCDavis1 data set. (Source: This is a subset of the UCDavis1 data set.)

    There are twelve columns of data:

    Column    Name           Description
     C1         Sex               Female
     C2         TV                Hours spent watching television each week. 
     C3         computer      Hours spent at a computer each week. 
     C4         Sleep            Hours of sleep previous night. 
     C5         Seat              Typical classroom seat location (Front Middle Back) 
     C6         alcohol          Number of alcoholic beverages consumed each week 
     C7         Height           Self-reported height, inches 
     C8         momheight    Mother's height, inches 
     C9         dadheight      Father's height, inches 
     C10       exercise        Hours spent exercising each week 
     C11       GPA              Student's GPA 
     C12       class              Liberal Arts or Non Liberal Arts 
     
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    UCDavis1M

    Data for the n=79 males in the UCDavis1 data set. (Source: This is a subset of the UCDavis1 data set.)

    There are twelve columns of data:

    Column    Name           Description
     C1         Sex               Male
     C2         TV                Hours spent watching television each week. 
     C3         computer      Hours spent at a computer each week. 
     C4         Sleep            Hours of sleep previous night. 
     C5         Seat              Typical classroom seat location (Front Middle Back) 
     C6         alcohol          Number of alcoholic beverages consumed each week 
     C7         Height           Self-reported height, inches 
     C8         momheight    Mother's height, inches 
     C9         dadheight      Father's height, inches 
     C10       exercise        Hours spent exercising each week 
     C11       GPA              Student's GPA 
     C12       class              Liberal Arts or Non Liberal Arts 
     
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    UCDavis2

    Data from n=239 college students. The data were collected in the Fall quarter of 2000. (Source: The authors)

    There are fourteen columns of data:

    Column    Name           Description
     C1         Sex               Male or Female 
     C2         GPA             Student's GPA 
     C3         Seat              Typical classroom seat location (Front Middle Back) 
     C4         alcohol          Number of alcoholic beverages consumed in typical week 
     C5         WtFeel          Does student feel he/she is Oveweight, Underweight, About Right? 
     C6         Height           Self-reported height, inches 
     C7         IdealHt          Student's choice of ideal height, inches 
     C8         momheight     Mother's height, inches 
     C9         dadheight       Father's height, inches 
     C10       Hand              Are you   Left-handed or Right-handed ? 
     C11       Looks             On a scale of 1-25 importance of personality (1) versus looks (25)
     C12       Friends          Who is easiest to make friends with? (Opposite sex   Same sex) 
     C13       Cheat             Would you tell the instructor if you saw somebody cheating on an exam?
     C14       Smoke            Does student smoke at least one pack of cigarettes per week? 
     
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    UCDchap5

    Self-reported heights and parents' heights for n=18 college students. (Source: A subset of the dataset UCDavis2)

    There are five columns of data:

    Column   Name              Description
     C1         Sex                 Coded as M or F 
     C2         height             Student's height, in inches 
     C3         momheight     Mother's height, in inches (as reported by student) 
     C4         dadheight       Father's height, in inches (as reported by student) 
     C5         midparent       Average of parents' heights, in inches 
     
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    UCDwomht

    Self-reported heights and parents' heights for n=94 college women. (Source: A subset of the dataset UCDavis1)

    There are four columns of data:

    Column   Name             Description
     C1         height             Student's height, in inches 
     C2         momheight     Mother's height, in inches (as reported by student) 
     C3         dadheight       Father's height, in inches (as reported by student) 
     C4         midparent      Average of parents' heights, in inches 
     
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    wthghtM

    Weight and height data for n=43 college men. The data are used in examples in Chapter 14. (Source: Laura Simon, Pennsylvania State University) 

    There are three columns of data:

    Column   Name             Description
     C1         Sex                Male for all 43 rows. 
     C2         Height            Self-reported height in inches 
     C3         Weight           Self-reported weights in pounds 
     
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    YouthRisk

    Data from the 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey of U.S. high school students. These data are for 12th graders, aged 17 and 18 years old, who say they drive.

    (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/)

    There are five columns of data:

    Column   Name              Description
     C1         Sex                 Male or Female
     C2         Grades           Grades usually achieved in school 
     C3         DaysCigs       Days student smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days (categorized) 
     C4         DaysDrnk      Days on which student drank alcohol during past 30 days (categorized) 
     C5         SeatBelt         How often student wears seatbelt when driving (categorized) 
     
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