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Dataset Example: Investigating Home Court Advantage

This article presents data from 1997 Big Ten Conference men's basketball games involving the University of Iowa Hawkeyes. The data can be used to demonstrate bivariate statistical inference techniques such as confidence regions, paired comparisons, and simultaneous confidence intervals. Key Word: Bivariate data; Scatterplot.

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Teaching Statistics with Data of Historic Significance: Galileo's Gravity and Motion Experiments

This article describes Galileo's data on falling bodies and projectiles and its use as an aid in teaching polynomial and nonlinear regression. Key Words: Independent and dependent variables; Graphical analysis.

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Dataset Example: Data from the Television Game Show "Friend or Foe?"

This article describes data from the television game show Friend or Foe. The data can be used to determine factors affecting contestants' strategies using descriptive statistics, testing for differences in means or proportions, and regression analysis. Key Words: Discrete choice analysis.

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Dataset Example: Fitting Percentage of Body Fat to Simple Body Measurements

The dataset presented in this article contains body measurements for 252 men and can be used to illustrate multiple regression and to provide practice in model building.

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An Experiential Approach to Integrating ANOVA Concepts

This article presents a dataset based on an industrial case study using design of experiments. It can be used to discuss sample size, power, statistical significance, interaction terms, Type I and Type II errors, the role and importance of the error term, design of experiments, and analysis of variance.

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Dataset Example: Electric Bill Data

This article describes a dataset containing monthly household electric billing charges for ten years. The data can be used to illustrate graphing, descriptive statistics, correlation, seasonal decomposition, a variety of smoothing methods, ARIMA models, forecasting, and multiple regression.

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Diamond Ring Pricing Using Linear Regression

The dataset presented in this article contains information on the prices and weights of diamond stones; it can be used to illustrate simple linear regression and encourage students to think critically about the appropriateness of a model. The data is in .dat format. Key Words: Extrapolation; Interpretation of intercept; Model-building; Transformations.

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Dataset Example: Using Cigarette Data for An Introduction to Multiple Regression

This article describes a dataset containing information for 25 brands of domestic cigarettes. The dataset can be used to illustrate multiple regression, outliers, and collinearity.

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Dataset Example: Simpson's Paradox: An Example From a Longitudinal Study in South Africa

The dataset presented in this article comes from a South African study of growth of children. This data is a useful example of Simpson's paradox. Key Words: Categorical data; Comparing proportions.

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Dataset Example: Forecasting Computer Usage

This article presents a dataset containing actual monthly data on computer usage in Best Buy stores from August 1996 to July 2000. This dataset can be used to illustrate time-series forecasting, causal forecasting, simple linear regression, unequal error variances, and variable transformation. Key Words: Model-building; Seasonal Variation.

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Statistical Topic

Dataset Example: Investigating Home Court Advantage

Teaching Statistics with Data of Historic Significance: Galileo's Gravity and Motion Experiments

Dataset Example: Data from the Television Game Show "Friend or Foe?"

Dataset Example: Fitting Percentage of Body Fat to Simple Body Measurements

An Experiential Approach to Integrating ANOVA Concepts

Dataset Example: Electric Bill Data

Diamond Ring Pricing Using Linear Regression

Dataset Example: Using Cigarette Data for An Introduction to Multiple Regression

Dataset Example: Simpson's Paradox: An Example From a Longitudinal Study in South Africa

Dataset Example: Forecasting Computer Usage

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