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Health
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Skin cancers in women
The number of skin cancers in women in two area of the USA
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Neural tube defects
The number of neural tube defects per 10 000 births for England and Wales
for every two years between 1977 and 1985 inclusive.
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South African Birth to Ten study
An example of Simpson's paradox: mothers classified by race, group, and whether they had medical aid
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Treatment of kidney stones
An example of Simpson's paradox: success rates of two treatment methods classified by size of the stones
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Loss of consciousness in pilots
Binary data: Whether pilots shows signs of black-out
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Smoking and respiratory function
The health smoking habits of 654 youths, aged 3 to 19 in the middle to late 1970s.
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Food poisoning
Data from an outbreak of food poisoning
- Body fat in females
Body fat measurements of 20 healthy females, with three possible predictors
- Baby births in one 24-hour period from Brisbane Mater Hospital
This dataset can be used to demonstrate the binomial, Poisson, geometric, exponential and
normal distributions.
- Captopril and blood pressure
- Coronary heart disease, smoking and coffee intake
- Naval hospital maintenance
- Alcohol and tobacco (not for release)
- Lunacy
- Life Expectancy
- Human age and fatness
- Leukaemia survival times
- Depression and children
- Height and pulse rate
- Neuralgia data
- Age of menarche in Polish girls
The proportion of Polish girls at given ages who have started menstruation.
- Depression in learning disabled and emotionally disturbed adolescents
A four level contingency table classifying adolescents by age, gender, depression levels and whether they
are seriously emotionally disturbed or learning disabled.
- Canadian cancer deaths
A small, three factor contingency table with structural zeros.
- Height and resting pulse
The heights and resting pulses for a sample of hospital patients.
- Hospital admissions and discharges
The admissions are uniform; the discharges show people leaving on Friday, and fewer on weekends.
- Caesarean in Canadian hospitals
The data give the number of births in Ontario, Canada,
from 1982/83 to 1991/92,
and the number of caesarean section in the same years.
The data can be used for a two-sample test of proportions for two years.
- Nutritional information in bakery products
The data give the nutritional information for
25 products from Brumby's bakery.
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Smoking and survival of Whickham women
A small contingency table with two other factors.
An example of Simpson's Paradox.
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Danish lung cancer
A Poisson rate problem
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Hospital length-of-stay for asthmatic children
Count data without zeros
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Deaths from preventable diseases
The number of deaths from preventable diseases in Australia
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