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Filename: CLUTCH.XLS
Are there clutch hitters in baseball? The file gives performance data for all major league hitters
for the 1999 season (the most recent for which I can obtain the information). The data file contains
each player's overall record (atbats and hits) as well as performance in clutch situations (defined
two ways: "runners in scoring position" and "late and close").
Filename: BASEBALLSQC.XLS
Annual records (since 1901) for every major league baseball team, giving data for home runs, runs
scored, team batting average, and team winning percentage. Do these processes appear to be "in
control"?
Filename: BODYFAT.XLS
Data on percent bodyfat measurements for a sample of 252 men, along with various measurements of body
size. Percent body fat is normally measured by weighing the person underwater - a cumbersome
procedure. The goal is a regression model that will allow accurate estimation of percent body fat,
given easily obtainable body measurements. The data were taken from the Journal of Statistics
Education website.
Filename: DARTS.XLS
Can stock market professionals really do any better than simply throwing darts at pages of stock
market listings? The Wall Street Journal ran a monthly contest on this for several years.
These data are the results of their contests.
Filename: DEATHDATA.XLS
Death rates (by state) from various causes, as well as information on related factors (such as
age distribution and urbanization). From the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Filename: DJI-SP.XLS
Twenty years (1998-2008) of monthly closing prices for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and
the Standard and Poor's 500 stock market indexes. The data were obtained from Yahoo! Finance's
historical stock quotations page.
Filename: FL-LOTTERY.XLS
Winning numbers from the Florida Lottery (through the end of 2008), as reported by the
state lottery commission. Note that from its inception through 23 October 1999, the lottery
was "pick 6 of 49." Thereafter, it was a "pick 6 of 53" lottery.
Filename: KYDERBY.XLS
Winning time of the Kentucky Derby since its inception in 1875. The file gives the year, name
of the winning horse, and winning time in minutes and seconds.
Filename: NCAABASEBALL.XLS
Results from the NCAA Division I Regional Baseball Tournament, for the years 2003 through 2008.
Filename: NFL9800.XLS
Filename: NFL0108.XLS
Data from the 1998 through 2000 seasons of the National Football League, giving year and week of
the game, home and visiting teams, score, and pointspread. The same data for the 2001 through
2008 seasons, minus the pointspread data.
Filename: NLYS.XLS
A small subset of data from the National Longitudinal Youth Survey.
Filename: NORMTEMP.XLS
Data on body temperature, gender, and heart rate. Taken from the article "A Critical Appraisal
of 98.6 Degrees F ...," by Mackowiak et al., in the Journal of the American
Medical Association (vol. 268, pp. 1578-80, 1992).
Filename: POLLUTION.XLS
Air quality measurements on 41 U.S. cities. Data obtained from A Handbook of Small Data Sets,
edited by D.J. Hand, et al.
Filename: POVERTY.XLS
Data for 97 countries, on birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, life expectancies, and
per capita GDP. Obtained from the Journal of Statistics Education online data archive.
Original source was 1990 United Nations data.
Filename: PRESELECT.XLS
Results for Post-World War II presidential elections, giving the total number of votes cast for
all candidates as well as the number received by the two major political parties.
Filename: SIRIUS0.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS1.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS2.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS3.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS4.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS5.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS6.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS7.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS8.XLS
Filename: SIRIUS9.XLS
Data for a mock "case." The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is bidding on a contract to
supply parts to a defense contractor.
Filename: TITANIC.XLS
Data from the first (and last) voyage of the Titanic.
Filename: USPOP.XLS
Population of the United States, in each decennial census.
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