CoalMiners
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Breathlessness and Wheeze in Coal Miners
Data from Ashford & Sowden (1970) given by Agresti (1990) on the association between two pulmonary conditions, breathlessness and wheeze, in a large sample of coal miners who were smokers with no radiological evidence of pneumoconlosis, aged between 20–64 when examined. This data is frequently used as an example of fitting models for bivariate, binary responses.
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● Alias: CoalMiners
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PreSex
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Pre-marital Sex and Divorce
Data from Thornes & Collard (1979), reported in Gilbert (1981), on pre- and extra-marital sex and divorce.
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● Alias: PreSex
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Rochdale
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Rochdale Data
Information on 665 households of Rochdale, Lancashire, UK. The study was conducted to identify influence factors on economical activity of wives.
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● Alias: Rochdale
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Federalist
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`May' in Federalist Papers
Data from Mosteller & Wallace (1984) investigating the use of certain keywords (‘may’ in this data set) to identify the author of 12 disputed ‘Federalist Papers’ by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison.
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● Alias: Federalist
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Data from Petersen (1968) about the job satisfaction of 715 blue collar workers, selected from Danish Industry in 1968.
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● Alias: JobSatisfaction
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SpaceShuttle
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Space Shuttle O-ring Failures
Data from Dalal et al. (1989) about O-ring failures in the NASA space shuttle program. The damage index comes from a discussion of the data by Tufte (1997).
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● Alias: SpaceShuttle
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Bundesliga
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Ergebnisse der Fussball-Bundesliga
Results from the first German soccer league (1963-2008).
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● Alias: Bundesliga
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OvaryCancer
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Ovary Cancer Data
Data from Obel (1975) about a retrospective study of ovary cancer carried out in 1973. Information was obtained from 299 women, who were operated for ovary cancer 10 years before.
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● Alias: OvaryCancer
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WomenQueue
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Women in Queues
Data from Jinkinson & Slater (1981) and Hoaglin & Tukey (1985) reporting the frequency distribution of females in 100 queues of length 10 in a London Underground station.
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● Alias: WomenQueue
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SexualFun
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Sex is Fun
Data from Hout et al. (1987) given by Agresti (1990) summarizing the responses of married couples to the questionnaire item: Sex is fun for me and my partner: (a) never or occasionally, (b) fairly often, (c) very often, (d) almost always.
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● Alias: SexualFun
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