Inference for numerical data

Risso’s dolphins $\to$ Endo T and Haraguchi K. 2009. High mercury levels in hair samples from residents of Taiji, a Japanese whaling town. Marine Pollution Bulletin 60(5):743-747.

Taiji was featured in the movie The Cove, and it is a significant source of dolphin and whale meat in Japan. Thousands of dolphins pass through the Taiji area annually, and we assumes these 19 dolphins reasonably represent a simple random sample from those dolphins.

Croaker white fish $\to$ fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

run17 $\to$ www.cherryblossom.org

textbooks, ucla_textbooks_f18 $\to$ Data were collected by OpenIntro staff in 2010 and again in 2018. For the 2018 sample, we sampled 201 UCLA courses. Of those, 68 required books that could be found on Amazon. The websites where information was retrieved:
sa.ucla.edu/ro/public/soc, ucla.verbacompare.com, and amazon.com.

stem_cells $\to$ Menard C, et al. 2005. Transplantation of cardiac-committed mouse embryonic stem cells to infarcted sheep myocardium: a preclinical study. The Lancet: 366:9490, p1005-1012.

ncbirths $\to$ Birth records released by North Carolina in 2004. Unfortunately, we don’t currently have additional information on the source for this data set.

Exam versions $\to$ This example was made up.

Blood pressure statistics $\to$ The blood pressure standard deviation for patients with blood pressure ranging from 140 to 180 mmHg is guessed and may be a little (but likely not dramatically) imprecise from what we’d observe in actual data.

toy_anova $\to$ Data used for Figure 7.19, where this data was made up.

mlb_players_18 $\to$ Data were retrieved from mlb.mlb.com/stats. Only players with at least 100 at bats were considered during the analysis.

classdata $\to$ This example was made up.