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Principles of Applied Statistics, Second Edition
Fleming and Nellis

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Name

Title

ADVERTS

Sales of a branded product, advertising expenditure and population in 25 countries


AGES

Ages of heads of households (years) in London and New York


AGRPRODS

Index numbers of prices of agricultural products and relative index number weights


ASSEMBLY

Times taken by 65 workers to assemble two equivalent components with different specifications


BANKLOANS

Number and value of bank loans made to personal customers 1981Q1-2000Q4


BATTERIES

Average battery life (hours) recorded for 35 samples of two types of batteries


BEER

Beer consumption


BUSINV

Business investment by industry at 1995 prices (£million)


CALLS

Delays experienced by a random sample of 50 telephone callers to each of three call-answering centres before the call is answered (minutes)


CARPARK

Number of cars recorded entering a car park during one minute intervals between 8am and 6pm during one day


CASH

Ordered array of the amounts of money (£) withdrawn by customers from a cash machine each day during one week


CHILDREN

Heights and weights of 50 school children


COMPUTERS

Specifications and prices of 60 desktop computers


DEFECTS

Number of defects per square meter of carpet observed in 200 random samples


DISTINCS

Distribution of personal incomes before and after tax in a country in 1995 and 2000


DISTWEALTH

Distribution of wealth of individuals in a country in 1995 and 2000


DRINKS

Weekly sales (£) of soft drinks in six stores according to type of display


ECACAGE

Economic activity of the population analysed by age (thousands)


e-TRADE

e-Trade: website hits and orders placed for books and shares each day over a 30-day period


EU-AGRHOLDINGS

Number of agricultural holdings (thousands) by size group (hectares of agricultural area) in the European Union


FAMILIES Number of girls in a random sample of 100 families with 5 children

GUILTY

Persons found guilty of offences by sex and age


HOUSESALES

House prices and house characteristics for 80 house sales


HOUSING

House price determination variables 1968-2000


INSPOLS

Number of insurance policies sold by salaried employees and commission agents


JDISTHE

Joint distributions of weekly hours and earnings


MACHINES

Number of items produced by each of 5 operatives each working on each of 5 different machines in turn for equal periods of time


MARKS

Test marks for 26 students by sex


MEDIA

Number of enquiries received by a company in response to its advertisements of 10 products in different media


METALS

Sales and prices of selected metals


MFGPLANTS

Number of, and employment in, manufacturing plants by size of plant in plants with more than 10 employees


MOTORS

Motor vehicle sales in the European Union by country and type of vehicle


NEWSPAPERS

Number of people in 50 random samples of 16 people expressing approval of a new format for a newspaper


PARCELS

Weights of parcels received by two parcel delivery firms (kgs)


PCPORTABLES

Portable PCs: prices and specifications


PETROL

Petrol sales for a petrol station: January 1996-December 2000


PHONES

Average weekly phone bills of 60 households classified by size of household and age of the head of household


PORTFOLIO

Portfolio Statement


PROJPOPAGE

Projected population by age, United Kingdom, 1998-2021


PROJPOPCO

Project population of United Kingdom and constituent countries 1998-2021

 


QUEUING

Queuing times at supermarket checkouts over a 28-day period measured at 15 minute intervals during one specific hour each day for selected customers


RAIN

Number of days per week during one year on which it did not rain


RENTS

Rents for a sample of flats (apartments) in London and New York
(US $ per month)


ROCE Rates of return of all Private Non-Financial Corporations

RPI UK Retail Prices Index: Detailed figures for various groups, sub-groups and sections August 1999-January 1999
(January 1987 = 100)

SALARIES Starting salaries of new university graduates (£) by subject and sex

SALBILL Company salary bill (Quarterly: 1978Q1-2000Q4)

SALESREV Sales revenue of supermarket stores (annual data: 1978-2000)

SCORES Graduate management aptitude test (GMAT) and grade point average (GPA) scores for 200 students

SHAMPOO Results of successive samples taken at hourly intervals during an
eight-hour shift in a factory measuring the volume of shampoo (ml)
dispensed into 250ml bottles by a filling machine

SHOPBILLS Average weekly shopping bill for 40 families

SMOKAGE Prevalance of cigarette smoking by age and sex: number of persons aged 16 and over

SMOKSOC Prevalence of cigarette smoking by socio-economic group of head of household and sex: number of persons aged 16 and over

TIMES Hours taken by five students to reach a certain level of competence in the use of three statistical software packages

TYPISTS Typing speeds before and after a new training course for 20 typists

TYRES Length of life (measured in thousands of miles) achieved by 4 types of tyre tested on 6 similar types of car

VEHICLES Car and commercial vehicle production

WEATHER Daily weather records for a town for one year (January 1st-December 31st)

XMCOMMODS Top 10 commodities exported from the UK in 1900 and 1999/
Top 10 commodities imported into the UK in 1900 and 1999

XMCOUNTRIES The top 10 markets for goods exported from UK in 1900 and 1999/
The top 10 sources for goods imported into UK in 1900 and 1999

XRATES Exchange rates to the US dollar (annual data: 1970-1992)

YIELDS Yields of wheat obtained on an experimental farm over four years using four different fertilisers (kg x 100 per hectare)
 
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