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Data Sets Used in the e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
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Alphabetic List of Data Sets
  1. ASCOMBE.DAT - Anscombe's four four data sets with same correlation but different appearance (correlation)
  2. AUTO79.DAT - 11 features for 74 car models from 1979 (multivariate)
  3. AUTO83B.DAT - miles per gallon for 1983 car models from United States and Japan (two sample comparison)
  4. BERGER1.DAT - Alaska pipeline ultrasonic defects (regression, calibration)
  5. BIRNSAUN.DAT - fatigue life of aluminum sheeting (reliability)
  6. BOXBIKE2.DAT - time to climb hill (2^(7-4) fractional factorial design)
  7. BOXSPRIN.DAT - percentage of acceptable springs (2^3 full factorial design)
  8. CALIBRATIONLINE.DAT - measurements from an optical imaging system (calibration)
  9. CATAPULT.DAT - catapult experiment (2^(5-1) fractional factorial design)
  10. CERAMIC.DAT - ceramic strength data (2^5 full factorial experiment)
  11. CHARACTERIZE-3_2_3_1.DAT - diameter measurements for five lathe machines (1-factor data)
  12. CHARACTERIZE-3_2_3_2.DAT - diameter measurements for five lathe machines and two coolants (2-factor data)
  13. CHECK_STD.DAT - check standard data for resistivity (MPC61.DAT) (calibration, uncertainty analysis)
  14. CHWIRUT2.DAT - ultrasonic calibration data (non-linear model)
  15. CLB1.DAT - Thermocouple calibration #1 (regression)
  16. CLB2.DAT - Thermocouple calibration #2 (regression)
  17. CO2.DAT - CO2 concentrations from Mauna Loa, Hawaii (time series)
  18. COMPARE-7_1_6.DAT - Example data (univariate outlier analysis)
  19. CURRIE.DAT - pollution source analysis (multivariate)
  20. DRAFT69.DAT - 1969 draft lottery rankings (univariate)
  21. DZIUBA1.DAT - standard resistor measurements (time series)
  22. ELNINO.DAT - Southern oscillation meteorology data (time series)
  23. FLICKER.DAT - Flicker noise data (time series)
  24. F_SERIES.DAT - Yields from batch chemical process (time series)
  25. FULLER2.DAT - airplane glass time to failure (reliability, distributional modeling)
  26. FURNACE.DAT - thickness of oxide films (3-factor data)
  27. GAS_FURNACE.DAT - gas rate and percentage CO2 measurements (multivariate time series)
  28. GEAR.DAT - gear diameter measurements (1-factor data)
  29. G_SERIES.DAT - International airline passengers: monthly totals in thousands of passengers, 1/1949 - 12/1960 (time series)
  30. HAHN1.DAT - thermal expansion of copper (regression)
  31. HSU12.DAT - accoustic microscopy (regression and calibration)
  32. IMPROVE-5_4_7_3.DAT - pressure measurements with several factor variables (design of experiments)
  33. IMPROVE-5_4_7_3.DAT - chemical vapor deposition reactor process (response surface design)
  34. IMPROVE-5_5_3_1_1.DAT - percentage yield of a chemical process based on temperature and reaction time - phase I, step 1 (optimization design)
  35. IMPROVE-5_5_3_1_3.DAT - percentage yield of a chemical process based on temperature and reaction time - phase I, step 2 (optimization design)
  36. IMPROVE-5_5_3_1_4.DAT - percentage yield of a chemical process based on temperature and reaction time - phase II (optimization design)
  37. IMPROVE-5_5_3_2_2.DAT - tire tread component (multi-response optimization design)
  38. IMPROVE-5_5_6.DAT - percentage of maximum torque based on 3 "inner arrays" and 2 "outer arrays" (Taguchi experiment design)
  39. INN.DAT - optimization of sonoluminescent light intensity (2^(7-3) fractional factorial design)
  40. JAHANMI2.DAT - effect of machining factors on strength of ceramics (multi-factor design)
  41. JONES.DAT - density of water as a function of temperature (one factor regression)
  42. LEW.DAT - steel-concrete beam deflection (time series)
  43. LEW3.DAT - tensile strength of concrete (fitting)
  44. LINEWID.DAT - line widths on photomask standards (calibration, uncertainty)
  45. LITHOGRA.DAT - lithography process (process control)
  46. LNSPCG.DAT - calculatuions for line-spacing of integrated circuit photomask calibration curve (calibration)
  47. LOADCELL.DAT - Known load cell versus measured load cell (calibration)
  48. LOESSCMP.DAT - Simulated (x,y) data (LOESS regression)
  49. LUTHER.DAT - Newton's gravitational constant via torsion pendulum experiment (time series)
  50. MACHINE.DAT - diameter measurements for three machines (multi-factor experiment)
  51. MASS.DAT - check standard data for the mass calibration process (calibration)
  52. MAVRO.DAT - filter transmittance experiment (univariate analysis)
  53. MICHELSO.DAT -Michelson's 1879 determination of the speed of light in air (multi-factor data)
  54. MLCO2MON.DAT - Mauna Loa monthly mean CO2 data (time series)
  55. MODEL-4_4_4.DAT - pressure/temperature data (regression)
  56. MODEL-4_4_5_2.DAT - modified version of the pressure/temperature data (regression)
  57. MONITOR-6_3_3_1.DAT - defects in wafers (counts based control charts)
  58. MONITOR-6_4_3_6.DAT - sales data (exponential smoothing)
  59. MONITOR-6_5_2.DAT - microwave radiation measurements (univariate, non-normality)
  60. MORALES.DAT - mass spectrometric isotopic analysis of sulfer exa-fluroide (1-factor data with 3 response variables)
  61. MPC441.DAT - resistivity measurements over time (repeatability)
  62. MPC5312.DAT - resistivity measurements for 5 probes and 5 wafers (uncertainty analysis)
  63. MPC536.DAT - resistivity measurements for two wiring configurations (gauge study, bias analysis)
  64. MPC61.DAT - resistivity measurements over time (gauge study, type A uncertainty analysis)
  65. MPC61A.DAT - differences from the mean for the resistivity measurements in MPC61.HTM (gauge study, bias analysis)
  66. MPC61B.DAT - differences in the averages for one probe of the resistivity measurements in MPC61.HTM (gauge study, bias analysis)
  67. MPC62.DAT - resistivity measurements over time (check standard study)
  68. NEGIZ4.DAT - lithography process (process control)
  69. NORMAL.DAT - 100 normal random numbers (univariate, distributional analysis)
  70. NORMAL2.DAT - 200 normal random numbers (univariate, distributional analysis)
  71. PBF11.DAT - weekly Freon-11 readings from Point Barrow, Alaska (time series, multivariate)
  72. PONTIUS.DAT - load cell versus deflection calibration measurements (regression, calibration)
  73. PR1.DAT - polymer relaxation data (nonlinear regression)
  74. RANDN.DAT - 500 normal random numbers (univariate, distributional analysis)
  75. RANDU.DAT - 500 uniform random numbers (univariate, distributional analysis)
  76. RANDWEIB.DAT - 500 Weibull random numbers with shape parameter 2 (univariate, distributional analysis)
  77. RANDWALK.DAT - 500 observations from a random walk (univariate, distributional analysis)
  78. ROSNER.DAT - Rosner's data for outlier tests (univariate, outliers)
  79. SHEESLE2.DAT - light bulb lead wire weld process comparison (multi-factor analysis)
  80. SOULEN.DAT - Josephson junction cryothermometry experiment (univariate, time series, distributional analysis)
  81. SPLETT2.DAT - Charpy V-NIST notch testing (one-factor analysis)
  82. SPLETT3.DAT - Eddy current probe data (2^3 full factorial design)
  83. SUNSPOT.DAT - sunspot activity (time series)
  84. TIETMOO1.DAT - vertical semi-diameters of the planet Venus (outliers)
  85. TUKLAMB.DAT - Tukey-Lambda random numbers with shape parameter 1.1 (distributional analysis)
  86. UGIANSKY.DAT - ASTM stress corrosion study (one-factor with two response variables)
  87. ZARR13.DAT - heat flow meter data (univariate)
  88. ZARR14.DAT - heat flow meter data (univariate)
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