WorldClass Statistics · Appendix: Data sets within the text

Probability

  • loan50, county →\to These data sets are described in Data Appendix B.1.

  • playing_cards →\to Data set describing the 52 cards in a standard deck.

  • family_college →\to Simulated data based on real population summaries at
    nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001126.pdf.

  • smallpox →\to Fenner F. 1988. Smallpox and Its Eradication (History of International Public Health, No. 6). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 92-4-156110-6.

  • Mammogram screening, probabilities →\to The probabilities reported were obtained using studies reported at www.breastcancer.org and www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173421.

  • Jose campus visits, probabilities →\to This example was made up.

  • No data sets were described in this section.

  • Course material purchases and probabilities →\to This example was made up.

  • Auctions for TV and toaster →\to This example was made up.

  • stocks_18 →\to Monthly returns for Caterpillar, Exxon Mobil Corp, and Google for November 2015 to October 2018.

  • fcid →\to This sample can be considered a simple random sample from the US population. It relies on the USDA Food Commodity Intake Database.

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“B.3 Probability” is from OpenIntro Statistics, Fourth Edition, by David M Diez, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher D Barr, shared under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. WorldClass Statistics is a derivative of OpenIntro Statistics, shared under the same license; the original book may be found at openintro.org/book/os.

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