Datasets for teaching

• %ideal.sav (Body weight expressed as a percentage of ideal; Saudek et al., 1989; Pagano & Gauvreau, 1993, p. 208)
• afvillage.sav (Sprayable surface area in an African village; Osborn, 1979, p. 6)
• antipyre.sav  and antipyre.xls (Antipyretics trial; ANOVA analysis; see text Exercise 13.9, p. 293).
• airsamples.sav (Particulate matter in air samples; fictitious data; particulate pollution at two sites)
• alcohol.sav  alcohol.xlc (Alcohol use, socioeconomic status, and age; Harvey Monder, Parklawn Data Center, 1986)
• anova.sav (Ages at three centers, used to illustrate ANOVA)
• anscomb.sav (Graphs in Statistical Analysis; Anscombe, 1973) 
• asbestos.sav (Smoking, asbestos exposure, and lung cancer; fictitious case-control data -- demonstrates interaction of the odds ratio)
• bd1.sav (Breslow & Day 1: Case-control study of esophageal cancer; Tuyns et al., 1977)
• bd2.sav (Breslow & Day 2: Oxford study of obstetric radiation and childhood cancer, Breslow and Day, 1980, p. 240; Kneale, 1971). 
• bicycle.sav (Bicycle helmet use by neighborhood; Perales, 1994)
• bigten.sav (Big ten college retention;  Berk 1994, p. 82)
• body-weight.sav (Student weights J. Mays' PowerPoint Slide for Moore, 2004, Chapter 2)
• bph-samp.sav (Benign prostatic hyperplasia trial; source = student Joanne Morales)
• braintum.sav (Electric blanket use and brain tumor risk, Preston-Martin et al., 1996, crude data)
• bronch-react.sav (Bronchial reactivity after exposure to gases; Source unknown)
• cholesterol.sav (Cholesterol levels in two groups; Group 1 from Rassias, 1991; Group 2 fictitious)
• coliform.sav (Coliform levels in water samples; fictitious)
• Dean1942.sav (Fluoridation of water and dental cavity rates, Dean et al., 1942)
• deermice.sav (Junk food experiment in lab mice; fictitious)
• diet.sav  (Linoleic acid lowers LDL cholesterol; group 1 data from Rassias et al., 1990)
• doll-ecol.sav (Ecological study of cigarette use and lung cancer mortality, Doll, 1955)
• ear.sav (Clinical trial of antibiotic use in the treatment of otitis media; Rosner, 1990, p. 68)
• edu_smoke.sav (Education and smoking; fictitious but based CDC, 2005, MMWR, 54(44), 1121-1124.)
• fauxpas.sav (Social faux pas in high school students -- Data are fictitious but realistic; a similar fictitious study is presented in Howell, 1995, p. 237)
• fev.sav (East Boston Respiratory Disease Study, Tager et al., 1979; Rosner, 1990, p. 40; same as Tager1979.sav)
• fluoride.sav (Carie rates before and after water fluoridation projects; source unknown)
• gerstmanb10.sav (Simple random sample of n = 10 from populati.sav)
• GerstmanSampleBig.sav (Simple random sample, n = 96 from populati.sav)
• grad-students.sav (Ages of graduate student, fictitious)
• hdur.sav (Hospitalization duration data); Townsend, et al., 1979 sample reported in Rosner, 1990, p.36)
• heartwt.sav (Heart and body weight, two independent groups; Rosner, 1990, p. 35)
• hibi2001.sav (Molecular detection of p16 promoter in patients with esophageal cancer, Hibi et al., 2001; Samuels & Witmer, 2003, p.p. 582 - 585) 
• histidine.sav (Histadine levels in 24 hour samples, men & women; source unknown)
• inc-pov-hlthins.sav (Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance, DeNavas-Walt et al., 2005). 
• iguana.sav (Gravid iguanas; Hamilton, 1994, p. 153)
• irishweb.sav (Irish healthcare websites; O'Mahoney, 1999)
• kxnecro.sav (Intestinal necrosis associated with postoperative sodium polystyrene sulfonate in sorbitol; Gerstman, et al., 1992)
• lab_experiment.sav (Laboratory experiment, same data as deermice.sav; data are fictitious.)
• labor.sav (Meconium staining and induction of birth; Osborn, 1979, p. 37; Osborn cites M. Sc. Social Medicine, September 1975)
• lactation.sav (Lactation and bone loss; Laskey et al., 1998)
• laskey-1998.sav (Breast feeding and bone loss; Laskey et al., 1998)
• leaves.sav (Leaves on a common stem; demonstration of location and spread)
• Lyle1987.sav (Blood pressure and metabolic effects of calcium supplementation; Lyle et al., 1987)
• mat-mort.sav (Maternal mortality and attendance at birth; source unknown)
• mat-role.sav (Adaptation to maternal roles from Nurcombe et al, 1984 via Howell, 1995, pp. 302 - 304). 
• MECCA.xls (Enteritis outbreak used in epidemiology classes)
• ment-hlt.sav (Frequency of problems at community mental health centers; source unknown but similar to Howell, 1995, p. 375)
• monkey4.sav (fictitious and facetious)
• na-bp.sav (Sodium and blood pressure; fictitious)
• oatbran.sav (Oat bran cereal and serum cholesterol; {Anderson et al., 1990; Pagano & Gauvreau, 1993, p. 252)
• oswego.sav (An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness following a church supper; ATPM, 1992) 
• per-hisp.sav (State populations, percent Hispanic; 2000 Census via Moore, 2004, p.10)
• pets.sav (Pet dogs as moderators of autonomic responses to stress, Allen et al., 1991.)
• pigment.sav (ANOVA of pigment levels; source unknown)
• pollution.sav  (Sampling frame for HS 167 lab)
• polyphen.sav (Serum polyphenols and red wine consumption; Nigdikar, 1998 with data generated by Moore, 2004, pp. 416, 643)
• pov-east-2000.sav (Poverty in eastern States; Delaker, 2001 Table D; Moore, 2004, p. 27)
• populati.sav (Sampling frame for lab work, HS 167)
• prison.sav (Sero-prevalence of HIV in women inmates, Smith et al., 1991)
• prostate.sav (Case-control study of vasectomy and prostate cancer, Zhu et al., 1996) 
• rassias.sav (Linoleic acid lowers LDL cholesterol; group 1 is Rassias et al., 1990, group 2 is fictitious)
• risk_index.sav (Risk index pilot study. Data are fictitious but realistic.)
• rooster.sav (Testosterone in roosters, Hampton, 1994, p. 147)
• SampleMeans.sav (Sampling distribution of means simulation experiment for HS 167)
• schork-p299.sav (Stage of AIDS and time since exposure to HIV; Schork & Remington, 2000, p. 299)
• seddiq.sav (NASA experiment, WBC determinations by two methods -- data from former student Adam Seddiqi)
• seizure.sav (Seizures following bacterial meningitis; source unknown)
• sexbias.sav (Sex bias during Graduate school admissions? full data set, Freedman et al., 1991, pp. 16 - 19; Bickel & O�Connell, 1975)
• sexbias2.sav  (Data for Major A and Major F from sexbias.sav; demonstrates confounding)
• sessmoke.sav (Socio-economic status and smoking; source is UC Berkeley lecture notes, 1983)
• simulation.sav (Lognormal distribution of body weights as function of age, U.S., 1976 - 1980, parameters based on Burmaster, 1997)
• skinfold.sav (Skin fold thickness and chronic lung disease; fictitious)
• smok_bw.sav (Smoking during pregnancy and birth weight; RV.NORMAL generated: X₁~N(7.5, 1), X₂~N(7.5, 1), X₃~N(7.0, 1), X₄~N(6.5, 1).)
• smoking-moms.sav (Maternal smoking and birthweight, Rosner, 2000, p. 569)
• stem2.sav (Data for illustrating a stemplot; fictitious)
• surg-time.sav (Surgical times; Kitchens, 1998, p. 139)
• Tager1979.sav (Child and adolescent health survey; Rosner, 1990, p. 40)
• tox-samp.sav (Part of the toxic.sav dataset)
• toxic.sav (Clustering of an adverse drug event; Jolson et al., 1992)
• transplant.sav (Surgical times for heart transplantations )
• tumorsize.sav (Size of meningiomas; fictitious)
• unicef.sav (Unicef low birth weight data; United Nations Children's Fund, 1991 via Pagano and Gauvreau, 1993, p. 55)
• waittime.sav (Outpatient care - time waiting in waiting room; fictitious)
• water.sav (Domestic water and dental caries, Dean et al., 1942, via Pagano, 1993, pp. 277-8)
• water2.sav (water.sav with variable transforms and exclusions)
• wcgs.sav (Western Collaborative Group Study; Selvin, 1991, p. 41)