Abbey                   Daily price returns (in pence) of Abbey
                        National shares between 7/31/91 and 10/8/91
Abc                     Three samples to illustrate analysis of
                        variance
Abilene                 Crimes reported in Abilene, Texas
Ability                 Perceived math ability for 13-year olds by
                        gender
Abortion                Abortion rate by region of country
Absent                  Number of absent days for 20 employees
Achieve                 Math achievement test scores by gender for 25
                        high school students
Adsales                 Number of ads versus number of sales for a
                        retailer of satellite dishes
Aggress                 Agressive tendency scores for a group of
                        teenage members of a street gang
Aid                     Monthly payments per person for families in the
                        AFDC federal program
Aids                    Incubation times for 295 patients thought to be
                        infected with HIV by a blood transfusion
Airdisasters            Aircraft disasters in five different decades
Airline                 Percentage of on-time arrivals and number of
                        complaints for 11 airlines
Alcohol                 Ages at which 14 female alcoholics began
                        drinking
Allergy                 Allergy medicines by adverse events
Anesthet                Recovery times for anesthetized patients
Anxiety                 Math test scores versus anxiety scores before
                        the test
Apolipop                Level of apolipoprotein B and number of cups of
                        coffee consumed per day for 15 adult males
Append                  Median costs of an appendectomy at 20 hospitals
                        in North Carolina
Appendec                Median costs of appendectomies at three
                        different types of North Carolina hospitals
Aptitude                Aptitude test scores versus productivity in a
                        factory
Archaeo                 Radiocarbon ages of observations taken from an
                        archaeological site
Arthriti                Time of relief for three treatments of
                        arthritis
Artifici                Durations of operation for 15 artificial heart
                        transplants
Asprin                  Dissolving time versus level of impurities in
                        aspirin tablets
Asthmati                Asthmatic relief index on nine subjects given a
                        drug and a placebo
Attorney                Number of convictions reported by U.S.
                        attorney's offices
Autogear                Number of defective auto gears produced by two
                        manufacturers
Backtoback              Illustrates inferences based on pooled t-test
                        versus Wilcoxon rank sum test
Bbsalaries              Baseball salaries for members of five major
                        league teams
Bigten                  Graduation rates for student athletes and
                        nonathletes in the Big Ten Conf.
Biology                 Test scores on first exam in biology class
Birth                   Live birth rates in 1990 and 1998 for all
                        states
Blackedu                Education level of blacks by gender
Blood                   Blood pressure of 15 adult males taken by
                        machine and by an expert
Board                   Incomes of board members from three different
                        universities
Bones                   Bone density measurements of 35 physically
                        active and 35 non-active women
Books                   Number of books read and final spelling scores
                        for 17 third graders
Bookstor                Prices paid for used books at three different
                        bookstores
Brain                   Brain weight versus body weight of 28 animals
Bumpers                 Repair costs of vehicles crashed into a barrier
                        at 5 miles per hour
Bus                     Attendance of bus drivers versus shift
Bypass                  Median charges for coronary bypass at 17
                        hospitals in North Carolina
CIsim                   Confidence Interval Simulation Program
Cabinets                Estimates of costs of kitchen cabinets by two
                        suppliers on 20 prospective homes
Cancer                  Survival times of terminal cancer patients
                        treated with vitamin C
Carbon                  Carbon monoxide level measured at three
                        industrial sites
Cat                     Reading scores on the California achievement
                        test for a group of 3rd graders
Censored                Entry age and survival time of patients with
                        small cell lung cancer under two different
                        treatments
Challeng                Temperatures and O-ring failures for the
                        launches of the space shuttle Challenger
Chemist                 Starting salaries of 50 chemistry majors
Chesapea                Surface salinity measurements taken offshore
                        from Annapolis, Maryland in 1927
Chevy                   Insurance injury ratings of Chevrolet vehicles
                        for 1990 and 1993 models
Chicken                 Weight gain of chickens fed three different
                        rations
Chipavg                 Measurements of the thickness of the oxide
                        layer of manufactured integrated circuits
Chips                   Four measurements on a first wafer and four
                        measurements on a second wafer selected from 30
                        lots
Cigar                   Milligrams of tar in 25 cigarettes selected
                        randomly from 4 different brands
Cigarett                Effect of mother's smoking on birth weight of
                        newborn
Citrus                  Percent of peak bone density of different aged
                        children
Clean                   Residual contaminant following the use of three
                        different cleansing agents
Coaxial                 Signal loss from three types of coxial cable
Coffee                  Productivity of workers with and without a
                        coffee break
Coins                   Yearly returns on 12 investments
Combinations            Combinations
Commute                 Commuting times for selected cities in 1980 and
                        1990
Concept                 Tennessee self concept scale scores for a group
                        of teenage boys
Concrete                Compressive strength of concrete blocks made by
                        two different methods
Corn                    Comparison of the yields of a new variety and a
                        standard variety of corn planted on 12 plots of
                        land
Correlat                Exercise to illustrate correlation
Counsel                 Scores of 18 volunteers who participated in a
                        counseling process
Cpi                     Consumer price index from 1979 to 1998
Crime                   Violent crime rates for the states in 1983 and
                        1993
Darwin                  Charles Darwin's study of cross-fertilized and
                        self-fertilized plants
Dealers                 Automobile dealers classified according to type
                        dealership and service rendered to customers
Defectiv                Number of defective items produced by 20
                        employees
Degree                  Percent of bachelor's degrees awarded women in
                        1970 versus 1990
Delay                   Delay times on 20 flights from four major air
                        carriers
Depend                  Number of dependent children for 50 families
Detroit                 Educational levels of a sample of 40 auto
                        workers in Detroit
Develop                 Demographic characteristics of developmental
                        students at 2-year colleges and 4-year colleges
Devmath                 Test scores for students who failed
                        developmental mathematics in the fall semester
                        1995
Dice                    Outcomes and probabilities of the roll of a
                        pair of fair dice
Diesel                  Diesel fuel prices in 1999-2000 in nine regions
                        of the country
Diplomat                Parking tickets issued to diplomats
Disposal                Toxic intensity for manufacturing plants
                        producing herbicidal preparations
Dogs                    Rankings of the favorite breeds of dogs
Domestic                Rates of domestic violence per 1,000 women by
                        age groups
Dopamine                Dopamine b-hydroxylase activity of
                        schizophrenic patients treated with an
                        antipsychotic drug
Dowjones                Closing yearend Dow Jones Industrial averages
                        from 1896 through 2000
Drink                   Opinion on referendum by view on moral issue of
                        selling alcoholic beverages
Drug                    Number of trials to master a task for a group
                        of 28 subjects assigned to a control and an
                        experimental group
Dyslexia                Data on a group of college students diagnosed
                        with dyslexia
EDA                     Exploratory Data Anaalysis
Earthqk                 One hundred year record of worldwide seismic
                        activity(1770-1869)
Educat                  Crime rates versus the percent of the
                        population without a high school degree
Eggs                    Number of eggs versus amounts of feed
                        supplement
Elderly                 Percent of the population over the age of 65
Energy                  Amount of energy consumed by homes versus their
                        sizes
Engineer                Salaries after 10 years for graduates of three
                        different universities
Entrance                College entrance exam scores for 24 high school
                        seniors
Epaminicompact          Fuel efficiency ratings for compact vehicles in
                        2001
Epatwoseater            Fuel efficiency ratings for two-seater vehicles
                        in 2001
Executiv                Ages of 25 executives
Exercise                Weight loss for 30 members of an exercise
                        program
Fabric                  Measures of softness of ten different clothing
                        garments washed with and without a softener
Faithful                Waiting times between successive eruptions of
                        the Old Faithful geyser
Family                  Size of family versus cost per person per week
                        for groceries
Ferraro1                Choice of presidental ticket in 1984 by gender
Ferraro2                Choice of vice presidental candidate in 1984 by
                        gender
Fertility               Fertility rates of all 50 states and DC
Firstchi                Ages of women at the birth of their first child
Fish                    Length and number of fish caught with small and
                        large mesh codend
Fitness                 Number of sit-ups before and after a physical
                        fitness course
Florida2000             Florida voter results in the 2000 presidential
                        election
Fluid                   Breakdown times of an insulating fluid under
                        various levels of voltage stress
Food                    Annual food expenditures for 40 single
                        households in Ohio
Framingh                Cholesterol values of 62 subjects in the
                        Framingham Heart Study
Freshman                Ages of a random sample of 30 college freshmen
Funeral                 Cost of funeral by region of country
Galaxie                 Velocities of 82 galaxies in the Corona
                        Borealis region
Gallup                  Results of a Gallup poll on possession of
                        marijuana as a criminal offense conducted in
                        1980
Gasoline                Price of regular unleaded gasoline obtained
                        from 25 service stations
German                  Number of errors in copying a German passage
                        before and after an experimental course in
                        German
Golf                    Distances a golf ball can be driven by 20
                        professional golfers
Governor                Annual salaries for state governors in 1994 and
                        1999
Gpa                     High school GPA versus college GPA
Grades                  Test grades in a beginning statistics class
Graduate                Graduation rates for student athletes in the
                        Southeastern Conf.
Greenriv                Varve thickness from a sequence through an
                        Eocene lake deposit in the Rocky Mountains
Grnriv2                 Thickness of a varved section of the Green
                        river oil shale deposit near a major lake in
                        the Rocky Mountains
Groupabc                Group data to illustrate analysis of variance
Groups                  An illustration of analysis of variance
Gym                     Children's age versus number of completed
                        gymnastic activities
Habits                  Study habits of students in two matched school
                        districts
Haptoglo                Haptoglobin concentration in blood serum of 8
                        healthy adults
Hardware                Daily receipts for a small hardware store for
                        31 working days
Hardwood                Tensile strength of Kraft paper for different
                        percentages of hardwood in the batches of pulp
Heat                    Primary heating sources of homes on indian
                        reservations versus all households
Heating                 Fuel efficiency ratings for three types of oil
                        heaters
Hodgkin                 Results of treatments for Hodgkin's disease
Homes                   Median prices of single-family homes in 65
                        metropolitan statistical areas
Homework                Number of hours per week spent on homework for
                        private and public high school students
Honda                   Miles per gallon for a Honda Civic on 35
                        different occasions
Hostile                 Hostility levels of high school students from
                        rural, suburban, and urban areas
Housing                 Median home prices for 1984 and 1993 in 37
                        markets across the U.S.
Hurrican                Number of storms, hurricanes and El Nino
                        effects from 1950 through 1995
Iceberg                 Number of icebergs sighted each month south of
                        Newfoundland and south of the Grand Banks in
                        1920
Income                  Percent change in personal income from 1st to
                        2nd quarter in 2000
Independent             Illustrates a comparison problem for
                        long-tailed distributions
Indian                  Educational attainment versus per capita income
                        and poverty rate for American indians living on
                        reservations
Indiapol                Average miles per hour for the winners of the
                        Indianapolis 500 race
Indy500                 Qualifying miles per hour and number of
                        previous starts for drivers in 79th
                        Indianapolis 500 race
Inflatio                Private pay increase of salaried employees
                        versus inflation rate
Inletoil                Inlet oil temperature through a valve
Inmate                  Type of drug offense by race
Inspect                 Percent of vehicles passing inspection by type
                        inspection station
Insulate                Heat loss through a new insulating medium
Iqgpa                   GPA versus IQ for 12 individuals
Irises                  R.A. Fishers famous data on Irises
Jdpower                 Number of problems reported per 100 cars in
                        1994 versus 1995s
Jobsat                  Job satisfaction and stress level for 9 school
                        teachers
Kidsmoke                Smoking habits of boys and girls ages 12 to 18
Kilowatt                Rates per kilowatt-hour for each of the 50
                        states and DC
Kinder                  Reading scores for first grade children who
                        attended kindergarten versus those who did not
Laminect                Median costs of laminectomies at hospitals
                        across North Carolina in 1992
Lead                    Lead levels in children's blood whose parents
                        worked in a battery factory
Leader                  Leadership exam scores by age for employees on
                        an industrial plant
Lethal                  Survival time of mice injected with an
                        experimental lethal drug
Life                    Life expectancy of men and women in U.S.
Lifespan                Life span of electronic components used in a
                        spacecraft versus heat
Ligntmonth              Relationship between damage reports and deaths
                        caused by lightning
Lodge                   Measured traffic at three prospective locations
                        for a motor lodge
Longtail                Long-tailed distributions to illustrate Kruskal
                        Wallis test
Lowabil                 Reading skills of 24 matched low ability
                        students
Magnesiu                Magnesium concentration and distances between
                        samples
Malpract                Amounts awarded in 17 malpractice cases
Manager                 Advertised salaries offered general managers of
                        major corporations in 1995
Marked                  Percent of marked cars in 65 police departments
                        in Florida
Math                    Standardized math test scores for 30 students
Mathcomp                Standardized math competency for a group of
                        entering freshmen at a small community college
Mathpro                 Math proficiency and SAT scores by states
Maze                    Error scores for four groups of experimental
                        animals running a maze
Median                  Illustrates test of equality of medians with
                        the Kruskal Wallis test
Mental                  Median mental ages of 16 girls
Mercury                 Concentration of mercury in 25 lake trout
Metrent                 Monthly rental costs in metro areas with 1
                        million or more persons
Miller                  Miller personality test scores for a group of
                        college students applying for graduate school
Miller1                 Twenty scores on the Miller personality test
Moisture                Moisture content and depth of core sample for
                        marine muds in eastern Louisiana
Monoxide                Carbon monoxide emitted by smoke stacks of a
                        manufacturer and a competitor
Movie                   Moral attitude scale on 15 subjects before and
                        after viewing a movie
Music                   Improvement scores for identical twins taught
                        music recognition by two techniques
Name                    Estimated value of a brand name product and the
                        conpany's revenue
Nascar                  Efficiency of pit crews for three major NASCAR
                        teams
Nervous                 Reaction effects of 4 drugs on 25 subjects with
                        a nervous disorder
Newsstand               Daily profits for 20 newsstands
Nfldraf2                Rating, time in 40-yard dash, and weight of top
                        defensive linemen in the 1994 NFL draft
Nfldraft                Rating, time in 40-yard dash, and weight of top
                        offensive linemen in the 1994 NFL draft
Nicotine                Nicotine content versus sales for eight major
                        brands of cigarettes
Orange                  Price of oranges versus size of the harvest
Orioles                 Salaries of members of the Baltimore Orioles
                        baseball team
Oxytocin                Arterial blood pressure of 11 subjects before
                        and after receiving oxytocin
Parented                Education backgrounds of parents of entering
                        freshmen at a state university
Patrol                  Years of experience and number of tickets given
                        by patrolpersons in New York City
Pearson                 Karl Pearson's data on heights of brothers and
                        sisters
Phone                   Length of long-distance phone calls for a small
                        business firm
Poison                  Number of poisonings reported to 16 poison
                        control centers
Politic                 Political party and gender in a voting district
Pollutio                Air pollution index for 15 randomly selected
                        days for a major western city
Porosity                Porosity measurements on 20 samples of Tensleep
                        Sandstone, Pennsylvanian from Bighorn Basin in
                        Wyoming
Poverty                 Percent poverty and crime rate for selected
                        cities
Precinct                Robbery rates versus percent low income in
                        eight precincts
Prejudic                Racial prejudice measured on a sample of 25
                        high school students
Presiden                Ages at inauguration and death of U.S.
                        presidents
Press                   Degree of confidence in the press versus
                        education level for 20 randomly selected
                        persons
Prognost                Klopfer's prognostic rating scale for subjects
                        receiving behavior modification therapy
Program                 Effects of four different methods of programmed
                        learning for statistics students
Psat                    PSAT scores versus SAT scores
Psych                   Correct responses for 24 students in a
                        psychology experiment
Puerto                  Weekly incomes of a random sample of 50 Puerto
                        Rican families in Miami
Quail                   Plasma LDL levels in two groups of quail
Quality                 Quality control test scores on two
                        manufacturing processes
Rainks                  Rainfall in an area of west central Kansas and
                        four surrounding counties
Randd                   Research and development expenditures and sales
                        of a large company
Rat                     Survival times of 20 rats exposed to high
                        levels of radiation
Ratings                 Grade point averages versus teacher's ratings
Reaction                Threshold reaction time for persons subjected
                        to emotional stress
Reading                 Standardized reading scores for 30 fifth
                        graders
Readiq                  Reading scores versus IQ scores
Referend                Opinion on referendum by view on freedom of the
                        press
Region                  Pollution index taken in three regions of the
                        country
Register                Maintenance cost versus age of cash registers
                        in a department store
Rehab                   Rehabilitative potential of 20 prison inmates
                        as judged by two psychiatrists
Remedial                Math placement test score for 35 freshmen
                        females and 42 freshmen males
Rentals                 Weekly rentals for 45 apartments
Repair                  Recorded times for repairing 22 automobiles
                        involved in wrecks
Retail                  Length of employment versus gross sales for 10
                        employees of a large retail store
Ronbrown1               Oceanography data obtained at site 1 by
                        scientist aboard the ship Ron Brown
Ronbrown2               Oceanography data obtained at site 2 by
                        scientist aboard the ship Ron Brown
Rural                   Social adjustment scores for a rural group and
                        a city group of children
SIGN.test               Sign Test
SRS                     Simple Random Sampling
Salary                  Starting salaries for 25 new PhD psychologist
Salinity                Surface-water salinity measurements from
                        Whitewater Bay, Florida
Sat                     SAT scores, percent taking exam and state
                        funding per student by state for 1994, 1995 and
                        1999
Saving                  Problem asset ration for savings and loan
                        companies in California, New York, and Texas
Scales                  Readings obtained from a 100 pound weight
                        placed on four brands of bathroom scales
Schizop2                Exam scores for 17 patients to assess the
                        learning ability of schizophrenics after taking
                        a specified does of a tranquilizer
Schizoph                Standardized exam scores for 13 patients to
                        investigate the learning ability of
                        schizophrenics after a specified dose of a
                        tranquilizer
Seatbelt                Injury level versus seatbelt usage
Selfdefe                Self-confidence scores for 9 women before and
                        after instructions on self-defense
Senior                  Reaction times of 30 senior citizens applying
                        for drivers license renewals
Sentence                Sentences of 41 prisoners convicted of a
                        homicide offense
Shkdrug                 Effects of a drug and electroshock therapy on
                        the ability to solve simple tasks
Shock                   Effect of experimental shock on time to
                        complete difficult task
Shoplift                Sales receipts versus shoplifting losses for a
                        department store
Short                   James Short's measurements of the parallax of
                        the sun
Shuttle                 Number of people riding shuttle versus number
                        of automobiles in the downtown area
Simpson                 Grade point averages of men and women
                        participating in various sports-an illustration
                        of Simpson's paradox
Situp                   Maximum number of situps by participants in an
                        exercise class
Skewed                  Illustrates the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test
Skin                    Survival times of closely and poorly matched
                        skin grafts on burn patients
Slc                     Sodium-lithium countertransport activity on 190
                        individuals from six large English kindred
Smokyph                 Water pH levels of 75 water samples taken in
                        the Great Smoky Mountains
Snore                   Snoring versus heart disease
Snow                    Concentration of microparticles in snowfields
                        of Greenland and Antarctica
Soccer                  Weights of 25 soccer players
Social                  Median income level for 25 social workers from
                        North Carolina
Sophomor                Grade point averages, SAT scores and final
                        grade in college algebra for 20 sophomores
South                   Murder rates for 30 cities in the South
Speed                   Speed reading scores before and after a course
                        on speed reading
Spellers                Standardized spelling test scores for two
                        fourth grade classes
Spelling                Spelling scores for 9 eighth graders before and
                        after a 2-week course of instruction
Sports                  Favorite sport by gender
Spouse                  Convictions in spouse murder cases by gender
Stable                  Times of a 2-year old stallion on a one mile
                        run
Stamp                   Thicknesses of 1872 Hidalgo stamps issued in
                        Mexico
Statclas                Grades for two introductory statistics classes
Statelaw                Operating expenditures per resident for each of
                        the state law enforcement agencies
Statisti                Test scores for two beginning statistics
                        classes
Step                    STEP science test scores for a class of
                        ability-grouped students
Stress                  Short-term memory test scores on 12 subjects
                        before and after a stressful situation
Study                   Number of hours studied per week by a sample of
                        50 freshmen
Submarin                Number of German submarines sunk by U.S. Navy
                        in World War II
Subway                  Time it takes a subway to travel from the
                        airport to downtown
Sunspot                 Wolfer sunspot numbers from 1700 through 2000
Superbowl               Margin of victory in Superbowls I to XXXV
Supercar                Top speeds attained by five makes of supercars
Tablrock                Ozone concentrations at Mt. Mitchell, North
                        Carolina
Teacher                 Average teacher's salaries across the states in
                        the 70s 80s and 90s
Tenness                 Tennessee self concept scores for 20 gifted
                        high school students
Tensile                 Tensile strength of plastic bags from two
                        production runs
Test1                   Grades on the first test in a statistics class
Thermal                 Heat loss of thermal pane windows versus
                        outside temperature
Tiaa                    1999-2000 closing prices for TIAA-CREF stocks
Ticket                  Time to complete an airline ticket reservation
Toaster                 Consumer Reports (Oct 94) rating of toaster
                        ovens versus the cost
Tonsils                 Size of tonsils collected from 1,398 children
Tort                    The number of torts, average number of months
                        to process a tort, and county population from
                        the court files of the nation's largest
                        counties
Toxic                   Hazardous waste sites near minority communities
Track                   National Olympic records for women in several
                        races
Track15                 Olympic winning times for the men's 1500-meter
                        run
Treatments              Illustrates analysis of variance for three
                        treatment groups
Trees                   Number of trees in 20 grids
Trucks                  Miles per gallon for standard 4-wheel drive
                        trucks manufactured by Chevrolet, Dodge and
                        Ford
Tv                      Percent of students that watch more than 6
                        hours of TV per day versus national math test
                        scores
Twin                    Intelligence test scores for identical twins in
                        which one twin is given a drug
Undergrad               Data set describing a sample of undergraduate
                        students
Vacation                Number of days of paid holidays and vacation
                        leave for sample of 35 textile workers
Vaccine                 Reported serious reactions due to vaccines in
                        11 southern states
Vehicle                 Fatality ratings for foreign and domestic
                        vehicles
Verbal                  Verbal test scores and number of library books
                        checked out for 15 eighth graders
Victoria                Number of sunspots versus mean annual level of
                        Lake Victoria Nyanza from 1902 to 1921
Viscosit                Viscosity measurements of a substance on two
                        different days
Visual                  Visual acuity of a group of subjects tested
                        under a specified dose of a drug
Vocab                   Reading scores before and after vocabulary
                        training for 14 employees who did not complete
                        high school
Wastewat                Volume of injected waste water from Rocky
                        Mountain Arsenal and number of earthquakes near
                        Denver
Weather94               Weather casualties in 1994
Wheat                   Price of a bushel of wheat versus the national
                        weekly earnings of production workers
Windmill                Direct current produced by different wind
                        velocities
Window                  Wind leakage for storm windows exposed to a 50
                        mph wind
Wins                    Baseball team wins versus seven independent
                        variables for National league teams in 1990
Wool                    Strength tests of two types of wool fabric
Yearsunspot             Monthly sunspot activity from 1974 to 2000
normarea                Normal Area
nsize                   Required Sample Size
ntester                 Normality Tester
tsum.test               Summarized t-test
z.test                  Z-test
zsum.test               Summarized z-test
