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  • Dataset: Oral Teratogenic Study in Mice

    This dataset comes from a study of 100 female mice treated with one of 3 doses of a drug, and then impregnated by untreated males. The fetuses were examined for skeletal malformations. Questions from this study refer to the relationship between affected fetuses and dosage. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Dataset: Hexobarbital-Metabolizing Enzyme Induction Study in Mice

    This dataset comes from a study of 100 mice assigned randomly to one of five treatment groups of graded dosages of a drug. They were also given an injection of another drug, and sleeping times were recorded for each mouse. Questions from this study refer to the relationship between sleeping times and dosage. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Dataset: Four Acute Toxicity Studies in Rodents

    This dataset comes from a study of rodents treated with one of 5 or 6 doses of a drug. The proportion of animals that died were recorded. Questions from this study refer to estimating the lethal dosage. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Dataset: Sister Chromatid Exchange (SCE) Study in Mice

    This dataset comes from a study of 10 mice treated with one of 3 doses of a drug. Bone marrow cells were examined and the number of sister chromatid exchanges was recorded for each mouse. Questions from this study refer to the relationship between dosage and chromatid exchange. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Dataset: Alcohol Interaction Study in Men

    This dataset comes from a study of 23 healthy male subjects in a five period crossover study. Each subject followed a randomly allocated sequence of five treatments. Blood samples were collected and serum ethanol levels were recorded. Questions from this study refer to the drug-alcohol interaction. A text file version of the data is found in the relation link.

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  • Data Collection: Datasets from Drug Research

    This collection of datasets comes from several phases of drug research. Each dataset comes with a full description and questions to answer from the data.

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  • Dataset Example: A Dataset that is 44% Outliers

    This article describes a dataset of days in office of US Presidents with outliers that are not mistakes or unusually high or low observations. The data illustrate that outliers need not be errors but could be particularly interesting cases and that data displays may differ in their ability to reveal interesting data structure. Key Words: Inliers; Interpretation in context.

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  • Dataset Example: The Statistics of Poverty and Inequality

    This dataset contains a number of variables like birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, and Gross National Product for 97 countries. Suggested activities are geared toward non-mathematicians and include exploratory graphical analyses to answer several central questions. Key words: boxplot, scatterplot, population growth

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  • Dataset Example: Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer

    This article describes a dataset on the readability of booklets about cancer and the reading levels of patients with cancer. Students should be familiar with scales of measurement, data reduction, measuring center, constructing and interpreting displays, and reaching conclusions in real problems. Key Words: Ordinal data, Means, Medians, Histograms

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  • Dataset Example: Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy

    This article describes a dataset on life expectancies, densities of people per television set, and densities of people per physician in various countries of the world. The example addresses correlation versus causation and data transformations. Key Word: Prediction.

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