Statistical Consulting Unit -- ANU

Data sets used in the regression modelling course

The names given are the names used in any notes that refer to these data sets.  For reading
the data set into R or S-PLUS your should copy the data set to a floppy disk, giving it a
name such as hillrace.txt, or roller.txt. To read in the data you can then place the disk
in the relevant drive, which I will assume to be the A drive, and specify, e. g.:
    hillrace<- read.table("a:/hillrace.txt", header=T)
 The Scottish Hill Races Data Set (Table 1; name hillrace)
 The Lawn Roller Data Set (Page 14, Table 2: name roller)
 Darwin's Data (paired values) from an Experiment with Indian Corn (P. 24: name darwin)
 Red Clover Rhizobium Data, Comparing Six Different Inoculums (P. 25, Table 3: name clover)
 Strength of Paper, Relative to Applied Pressure in Manufacture (Fig. 13, P.27: name pressure)
 DC Output of Windmill, for Various Wind Velocities (P. 34; name windmill)
 Paper Strength Versus Hardwood Concentration (P. 35: name paper)
 Chemical Test of Iron Content in Slag, versus Magnetic Test (P. 37: name ironslag)
 Body and Organ Measurements on Porpoises (Pp. 39-40: name phoc)
 Litter Size, Body Weight & Brain Weight, for Guinea Pigs (P. 41, Table 5: name brainwt)
 Strength, Specific Gravity & Moisture, for Woooden Beams (P. 45, Table 6: name beams)
 Dolphin and Seal Body and Organ Measurements (P. 47: name dolphins)
 Suspended Solids in a Coal Cleaning System (P. 49: name coal)
 Data from an Experiment to Test the Depth of Anaesthesia (P. 63: name anaesthetic)

Data Sets Additional to Notes

 Habitat Preference of Moths (not in notes: name moths)
 Till Rent Data (name tillrent)

The till rent data gives rents  for land that is available for tilling, and for land that is
suitable for alphalpha production, in a number of different areas.  Explanatory variables
are average number of cows per acre, percent of land in pasture, and whether or not
the land has been limed.