Datasets from the book:
A Handbook of Small Data Sets
edited by D.J. Hand, F. Daly, A.D. Lunn, K.J. McConway and
E. Ostrowski
from Chapman and Hall, ISBN 0 412 39920 2.
- Germinating seeds
- Guessing lengths
- Darwin's cross-fertilized and self-fertilized plants
- Intervals between cars on the MI motorway
- Tearing factor for paper
- Abrasion loss
- Mortality and water hardness
- Tensile strength of cement
- Weight gain in rats
- Weight of chickens
- Flicker frequency
- Effect of ammonium chloride on yield
- Comparing dishwashing detergents
- Software system failures
- Piston-ring failures
- Strength of chemical pastes
- Human age and fatness
- Motion sickness
- Plum root cuttings
- Spectacle wearing and delinquency
- Yield of isatin derivative
- Fecundity of fruitflies
- Butterfat
- Snoring and heart disease
- Trees' nearest neighbors
- Air pollution in US cities
- Acacia ants
- Vaccination
- Peppers in glasshouses
- A clinical trial in lymphoma
- Danish do-it-yourself
- Testing cement
- Irises
- Water voles
- Facilities in East Jerusalem
- Yields of winter wheat
- WISC blocks
- Byssinosis
- A tomato crossing experiment
- Coronary heart disease
- Toxaemia of pregnancy
- Starting positions in horse racing
- Saltiness judgments
- Oral socialization and explanations of illness
- Dopamine and schizophrenia
- US cancer mortality
- Cholesterol and behaviour type
- Aflatoxin in peanuts
- Anscombe's correlation data
- Caffeine and finger tapping
- Jackal mandible lengths
- Birds in paramo vegetation
- Extinction of marine genera
- Household expenditures
- Cork deposits
- Creatinine kinase and heart attacks
- Petrol expenditure
- North Buckinghamshire moths
- Crowds and threatened suicide
- Putting the shot
- Wooden toy prices
- Food prices
- UK earnings ratios
- Census data on 10 towns
- Expenditure on food
- Anaerobic threshold
- Road casualties on Fridays
- UK sprinters
- Unemployment and expenditure on motoring
- Cloud seeding
- Calculator random digits
- Catopril and blood pressure
- Food prices and house prices
- UNICEF data on child mortality
- Length of stay on a psychiatric observation ward
- Hodgkin's disease
- A Church Assembly vote
- A vandalized experiment
- Chest, Waist and hips measurements
- Morse code mistakes
- Distribution of minimum temperatures
- Rat skeletal muscle
- Ground cover under apple trees
- Lung cancer and occupation
- House insulation: Whitburn
- House insulation: Bristol
- Engine capacity and fuel consumption
- House insulation: Whiteside's data
- coffee prices
- House temperatures: Neath Hill
- Sex differences at school
- Destination of school leavers
- House insulation: Pennyland
- Wave energy device mooring
- The effect of light on mustard root growth
- Height and weight of 11-year-old girls
- Consulting the doctor about a child
- House heating: Great Linford
- Births in Basel
- Homing in desert ants
- Homing in pigeons
- Breast cancer mortality and temperature
- Deaths from sport parachuting
- Cotton imports in the 18th century
- British exports in the 19th century
- Size of ships in 1907
- Car sales in Quebec
- Sales and advertising
- Canadian lynx trappings
- Jet fighters
- Head size in brothers
- Sunspots
- Airline passenger numbers
- Yields from a batch chemical process
- Distances in Sheffield
- University of Iowa enrollments
- Insects in dunes
- Women's heights in Bangledesh
- Size of families in California
- Hutterite population structure
- Whooping cranes
- Pork and cirrhosis
- Pet birds and lung cancer
- Water injections and whiplash injuries
- Telling cancer patients about their disease
- Diet and neural tube defects
- Age of marriage in Guatemala
- Sand-flies
- Tonsil size and carrier status
- Duration of pregnancy
- 000 die throws
- Iron in slag
- Lowering blood pressure during surgery
- Crime in the USA: 1960
- Prater's gasoline yields
- Strength of cables
- Control of leatherjackets
- Spinning synthetic yarn
- Forearm lengths
- Lifetime of electric lamps
- Computer failures
- Replacement value of books
- Sulphinpyrazone and heart attacks
- Tibetan skulls
- East Midlands village dialects
- Lung Cancer mortality
- Aphids
- Pit props
- Silver content of Byzantine coins
- Shoshoni American Indians
- Component lifetimes
- Duckweed
- Simulated polynomial regression data
- Heights of elderly females
- Etruscan and Italian skulls
- A random pattern screen
- Rainfall in Australia
- Scottish soldiers
- Borrowing library books
- Nerve impulse times
- Corneal thickness of eyes
- Memory retention
- Student's yeast cell counts
- A comparison of growing conditions
- Anacapa pelican eggs
- Steel ball bearings
- Murder rates
- Kulasekeva model
- Epileptic seizures
- Red deer
- The incidence of albinism
- Females in queues
- Student absenteeism
- Leading digits
- Spores of the fungus Sordaris
- Litters of pigs
- Shoots of America maritima
- American N.F.L. matches
- Survival times in leukaemia
- Tensile strength
- Fatigue-life failures
- Linked transmission failures
- Published research papers in biology
- Counting cockroaches
- Survival times of green sunfish
- The great plague of 1665
- Log-series data
- Eye and hair colour in children
- Suicide figures in prisons
- Counting beetles
- The number of words in a sentence
- The size of gangs
- Skin graft survival times
- Angles of spiders' webs
- Finger length
- The Charlier model
- Disease clusters
- Multiple sclerosis
- The number of pigs in a litter
- The lengths of scallops
- Smoking habits in children
- The genesis of the t-test
- Dimensions of cuckoos' eggs
- Time intervals between coal mining disasters
- Ticks on sheep
- Brownlee's stack loss data
- Heine-Euler extensions
- Compound normal distributions
- Accident-repeatedness among children
- Volume of black cherry trees
- Digits count in pi and e
- Drug content of rat livers
- Envelope usage
- American Psychological Association election data
- Distribution of seabirds
- Spermarche
- Capture experiments
- Unaided distance vision
- Dental records
- Nigerian smallpox data
- Disease lesions in wheat
- Measuring drug diffusion
- Judgement concordance
- Bird colouring
- Incidence and mortality for lung cancer
- Bump-hunting
- Bliss" data sets
- Bird survival
- Trailing digits in data
- Silica in meteors
- Husbands and wives
- Presurgical stress
- Bladder cancer study
- Interspike waiting times
- Traffic flow
- Waiting times for planned pregnancies
- Iowa soil samples
- Greenland turbot
- Insect data
- Skin resistance
- Energy maintenance in sheep
- Lengths of lives of rats
- Crying babies
- Plant competition data
- Product sales
- Timber data
- Parasite data
- Azimuth data
- Perpendicular distance models
- Japanese black pines
- Treatments for locally unresectable gastric cancer
- Strength of beams
- Salinity values
- Epilectic seizures and chemothereapy
- Peroid between earthquakes
- Alveolar-bronchiolar adenomas
- Woodlice
- Drilling times
- Failure data
- Spatial presence-absence data
- Neuralgia data
- Temperatures in America
- Weldon's dice data - (currently) the last word
- Putting computers to the test
- Assesing the effect of toxicity
- Testing homogeneity
- Random digits
- Ice cream consumption
- Hospital data
- Aquifer data
- Windmill data
- Examination times and scores
- Gamma irradiation
- Ramus heights
- A soil experiment
- Rabit foetuses
- Blood fat concentration
- Snowfall data
- Counting alpha-particles
- Eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser
- Starch films
- Sheep diet
- Horse-kicks
- Pneumonia risk in smokers with chickenpox
- Anorexia data
- Breast development of Turkish girls
- Treatment of enuresis
- Births in the USA
- Flying bomb hits on London during World War II
- Brain and body weights of animals
- Severe Ideopathic Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Lowest temperatures for US cities
- Plasma citrate concentrations
- Voting in congress
- Cortisol levels in psychotics
- An historic data set: crime and drinking
- Depression in adolescents
- English and Greek teachers
- Fun runners
- Olympic jumping events
- Blood lactic acid
- Skin cancers
- Mental status of school-age children
- Diabetic mice
- Absorption of ions by potato
- Survival of cancer patients
- Major earthquakes since 1900: fatalitites and intensities
- Presidents, popes and monarchs
- Cervical cancer
- Sickle cell disearse
- Men's olympic spring times
- Women's olympic swimming
- A thrombosis study
- Deaths in USA in 1966
- Comparison of experimental method
- Bat-to-prey detection distances
- Sexual performance of castrated mice
- The cloud point of a liquid
- Romano-British pottery
- A split plot field trial
- Olympic triple jump distances
- Species of flea beetle
- Survival times of cancer patients
- Birthweights of Poland China pigs
- Performance of various computer CPU's
- Monthly deaths from lung diseases in the UK
- Convictions for drunkenness
- Ear infections in swimmers
- A perception experiment
- Boiling points in the Alps
- Remission times of leukaemia patients
- Foster feeding rats of different genotype
- Record times for Scottish hill races
- Hardness of timber
- Dimensions of jellyfish
- Malaria parasites
- The New York Choral Society
- Testing crash helmets
- The speed of light
- Murder-suicides through aircraft crashes
- Average monthly temperatures for nottingham, 1920-1939
- Insurance premiums
- Testing authorship
- The rise of the planet Venus
- Pulse rates of Peruvian Indians
- Vocabulary of children
- Educating cats
- Shocking rats
- Smoking habits
- Mothers of schizophrenics
- Unemployment and suicide rates
- Main US budget items for 1978 and 1979
- Damage to ships
- Methadone treatment of heroin addicts
- Smoking and motherhood
- Crime rates in the USA
- Olympic decathlon, 1988
- Measurements of dog mandibles
- Children with Down's syndrome
- Protein consumption in European countries
- Male-Egyptian skulls
- Olympic women's heptathlon 1988
- Percentages employed in different industries in Europe
- Ages at death of English rulers
- Deaths in coal mining disasters
- A study in obesity
- The star cluster CYG OB1
- Frequency of breast self-examination
- Annual wages of production line workers in the USA
- One way to kill a cat
- Viral lesions on tobacco leaves
- Finger ridges of identical twins
- Statures of brother and sister
- Candidates in the 1992 British Election
- Papers presented at the first ten ICPRs
- Body mass index data
- Citation rates
- A World Heavyweight Boxing Championship match
- Assessment of conference papers
- Clinical trial for sprains
- Jeans sales in the UK
- The thirteen most common psychiatric disorders in the UK
- Randomized experiement on tomato yield
- Screening for psychiatric disorder
- Salaries in different occupations
- Whisky prices
- London Marathon
- Predicting cervical cancer
- Treatments for head and neck cancer
- Tau particle decay
- Factors influencing depression
- Vocabulary scores of university students
- Two groups drug comparison
- Blood glucose levels
- Rat body weights with diet supplements
- Diet supplements
- Visual acuity and lens strength
- Plasma ascorbic acid levels in hospital patients
- Salsolinol excretion rates
- Response profiles to three drugs
- Patterns of phychotropic drug consumption
- Wool data
- Survival times of animals
- Effectiveness of slimming clinics
- Prevalence of vertebral fractures
- Agreement between two examination markers
- Subjective estimates of lengths of pieces of string
- Compariosn of two kitchen scales
- Performance in mathematical degrees by sex in England and Scotland
- Chemical process
- Carcinoma of the uterine cervix
- Rainfall in Minneapolis/St. Paul
- Book condition by strength of paper
- Oxford and Cambridge boat race crews
- Comparisons between 48 major cities in 1991
- Height and resting pulse measurements
- Coalminers' breathing difficulties
- Toxicity of potassium cyanate on trout eggs
- Asthma death, corticosteroid use, and fenoterol use
- Seed germination
- Depression and friendship amongst children
- Social class of fathers and sons
- Survival data for patients with chronic active hepatitis
- Survival times of leukaemia patients
- Dissimilarity ratings of World War II politicians
- Rate of formation of a chemical
- Road distances between major UK towns
- Penicillin manufacture
- Early detection of autism
- Adolescent attempted suicide rates
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- Yields of wheat
- Estimating numbers of unobserved species
- Distance and direction travelled by blue periwinkles
- Birth season an psychosis
- Psychotropic drug use by sex, age, and physical illness
- Mouse lymphoma mutation
- Stopping distance
- Decontaminants for M. bovis
- Breast cancer and ambulatory status over time
- Numbers of icebergs sighted
- Ratings of synchronized swimming
- Numbers of revertant colonies of TA98 Salmonella
- Landsat multi-spectral scanner data
- Effectiveness of insecticides
- Strengths of glass fibres
- Psychoative drug use
- Estimated abdominal diseas diagnosis
- Statistics examination results
- Eight variables measured on female psychiatric patients
- Suicide thoughts
- Similarities between eight offences
- Language abilities
- Heat evolved by setting cement
- Quality control in bread baking
- Death rates from heart disease among doctors
- Renal transplant data
- Strengths of welds in high density polyethylene
- Subjective health assessment in 5 regions
- AIDS incidence data for the USA
- Stock recruitment of Skeena River sockeye salmon
- Tumour response to chemotherapy
- Cervical cancer deaths in four European countries
- Performance of a credit scoring instrument
- Weights of mice
- Poisson random variate generation
- Survival times of gastric cancer patients
- Time for assays to register HIV positivity
- Mean daily SIDS deaths by temperature
- Number of SIDS deaths per day
- Predicting benefit from group psychotherapy
- African statisticians in 1977
- Railway accidents on British Rail, 1970-83
- Australian higher education students, 1981 to 1988
- Contents of books on multivariate analysis
- Age of menarche in Polish girls
- Level of Lake Victoria Nyanza and numbers of sunspots
- Surgical deaths
- Mean monthly temperature at various altitudes
- Aircraft air-conditioning systems failures
- Female age distribution in Mexico in 1960
- Volume of hens' eggs
- Smoking and health
- Herniorrhaphy
- Birthweight by gestational age
- Underdispersed word count data
- Red core disease in strawberries
- Failure times for a piece of electronic equipment
- Survival time of patients with lymphocytic non-Hodgkin's
- Prestige, income, education, and suicide rates for 36 occupations
- Natural scientists and engineers in the US
- Correlation between nine statements about pain
- Manufacture of truck leaf springs
- Housing satisfaction around Montevideo, Minnesota
- Car changing patterns
- In vitro chromosome aberration assays
- Visits to dentist
- Myocardial infarction and obesity
- Specific heat of water at various temperatures
- Numbers of packets of cereal purchased over 13 weeks
- Accelerated life tests on electrical insulation
- Cardiac oxygen consumption and mechanical function
- Coffee consumption and coronary heart disease
- Strength of sheet metal
- Mortality from testicular cancer in England and Wales
- Fathers' and sons' occupations
- Numbers of purchases of toilet tissue
- Haematology of paint sprayers
- Measurement of protein content in ground wheat
- Winning times in men's running events