Ebook: Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker

Statistics provides tools and strategies for the analysis of data. While much has been written about the methodology, sometimes without reference to data, little has been said about the data. In this volume we present sets of data obtained from many situations without any direct reference to a particular type of analysis. Our view of the usefulness of bringing together a broad collection of sets of data has been shared by many friends and contributors. Students of statistics need to gain facility with their art by applying their knowledge to many sets of data. Textbook examples tend to be small and selected primarily to illustrate a particular technique, thus failing to demonstrate the questioning, iterative nature of statistical analysis. The situations which gave rise to the more extensive sets of data given in this volume are colourful and interesting, and can be readily understood by laymen, students and research workers with diverse interests. These sets were often chosen for their perverse reluctance to yield under the naive application of standard procedures. They do not have correct solutions. They describe situations where the statisti­ cian can develop skills and learn the limitations of statistical methods.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Iris Data....Pages 5-8
Darwin’s Data on Growth Rates of Plants....Pages 9-12
Canadian Lynx Trappings....Pages 13-16
The Number of Deaths by Horsekicks in the Prussian Army....Pages 17-18
The Yields of Wheat on the Broadbalk Fields at Rothamsted....Pages 19-34
Uniformity Trials: Variation and Correlation in the Yield of Wheat....Pages 35-44
Stanford Heart Transplant Data....Pages 45-50
Coal-Mining Disasters....Pages 51-56
Recoiling of Guns....Pages 57-62
Old Maps....Pages 63-66
Monthly Mean Sunspot Numbers....Pages 67-74
Ozone Column....Pages 75-76
Downwind Effects from the Arizona Cloud Seeding Experiments....Pages 77-84
Half-Hourly Precipitation and Streamflow, River Hirnant, Wales, U.K., November and December, 1972....Pages 85-104
The Rainfall at Adelaide, South Australia....Pages 105-118
Particle Size Distribution of Soil Profiles....Pages 119-122
Identifying Groundwater Populations....Pages 123-126
Soil Data from the Province of Murcia, Spain....Pages 127-130
Lamoka Lake Site Determinations....Pages 131-132
Variations in the Earth’s Rotation Rate, 1820–1970....Pages 133-134
Association of Pairs of Radio Sources with Peculiar Galaxies....Pages 135-138
Motions of Stars in a Star Cluster, M92....Pages 139-146
Motions and Distances of Planetary Nebulae....Pages 147-150
Quality Control Data in Clinical Chemistry....Pages 151-156
Calcium Assay....Pages 157-164
Determination of Dunham Coefficients for the Ground State of D2....Pages 165-168
Clock Intercomparisons....Pages 169-172
An Evaluation of Cryogenic Flow Meters....Pages 173-180
Stress-Rupture Life of Kevlar 49/Epoxy Spherical Pressure Vessels....Pages 181-186
A Chemical Reaction....Pages 187-188
Product Preferences....Pages 189-198
Incidence of Malignant Melanoma After Peaks of Sunspot Activity....Pages 199-202
Supplemental Ascorbate, Vitamin C, in the Supportive Treatment of Cancer....Pages 203-208
Incidence of Byssinosis: A Cross-Sectional Occupational Health Study....Pages 209-210
Inter and Intra Individual Variation of Blood Glucose Levels....Pages 211-214
Chemical and Overt Diabetes....Pages 215-220
The Maternal Age Distribution of Patients with Down’s Syndrome....Pages 221-222
Procedures for the Detection of Muscular Dystrophy Carriers....Pages 223-228
Lengths of Remissions for Children with Acute Leukemia....Pages 229-232
Testis Tumours in Japan....Pages 233-236
Consecutive Measurements of Plasma Citrate Concentrations....Pages 237-238
Time to Death and Type of Death in Mice Receiving Various Doses of Red Dye No. 40....Pages 239-244
Cariogenic Effects of Diet....Pages 245-248
Physical Characteristics of Urines With and Without Crystals....Pages 249-252
Multiple Tumour Recurrence Data for Patients with Bladder Cancer....Pages 253-260
Prognostic Variables for Survival in a Randomized Comparison of Treatments for Prostatic Cancer....Pages 261-274
Visual Pattern Recognition....Pages 275-284
Circadian Rhythms....Pages 285-290
Number of Species in the Gal?pagos Islands....Pages 291-293
The Spatio-Temporal Spread of Fox Rabies....Pages 295-298
Measuring the Avoidance of Super-Parasitism: Are Balls Scattered Non-Randomly into Boxes?....Pages 299-300
Effect of Chemicals on Earthworm Populations....Pages 301-306
The Classification of Three Historical Specimens of Grey Kangaroos....Pages 307-317
Social Grooming in North American River Otters....Pages 319-328
Species Composition in a Complex of Woodlands....Pages 329-330
Distribution Patterns of Plant Species....Pages 331-332
Maize Fertilizer Experiments on the Islands of St. Vincent and Antigua....Pages 333-338
Disorder and Mineral Content in Apples....Pages 339-354
A Classical Apple Experiment....Pages 355-356
Mastitis Control by Penicillin and Novobiocin....Pages 357-360
United Kingdom Pig Production 1967 – 1978....Pages 361-368
Comparison of Family Sizes: A Problem from the 1941 Canadian Census....Pages 369-370
Canadian Unemployment Data 1956 – 1975....Pages 371-388
United States of America Unemployment Data, 1948–1981....Pages 389-390
Interorganizational Resource Links in Towertown, U.S.A.....Pages 391-396
Insurance Availability in Chicago....Pages 397-406
Factors Influencing Motor Insurance Rates....Pages 407-412
Disputed Authorship: The Federalist Papers....Pages 413-422
Platonic Prose Rhythm....Pages 423-426
Relationships between Birthday and Deathday....Pages 427-428
Back Matter....Pages 429-434
....Pages 435-442