# Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

## Documentation for package ‘UsingR’ version 2.0-6

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

## -- A --

age.universe | Best estimate of the age of the universe
aid | monthly payment for federal program
alaska.pipeline | Comparison of in-field and laboratory measurement of defects
alltime.movies | Top movies of all time
answers | Answers to selected problems
aosat | Artic Oscillation data based on SAT data
arctic.oscillations | Measurement of sea-level pressure at the arctic

## -- B --

babies | Mothers and their babies data
babyboom | Babyboom: data for 44 babies born in one 24-hour period.
batting | Batting statistics for 2002 baseball season
baycheck | Population estimate of type of Bay Checkerspot butterfly
best.times | Best track and field times by age and distance
blood | blood pressure readings
breakdown | Time of insulating fluid to breakdown
bright.stars | List of bright stars with Hipparcos catalog number
brightness | Brightness of 966 stars
bumpers | Bumper repair costs for various automobiles
BushApproval | U.S. President George Bush approval ratings
bycatch | Number of Albatrosses accidentaly caught during a fishing haul

## -- C --

cabinet | Estimated tax savings for US President Bush's cabinet
camp | Mount Campito Yearly Treering Data, -3435-1969.
cancer | cancer survival times
carbon | Carbon Monoxide levels at different sites
carsafety | Fatality information in U.S. for several popular cars
central.park | Weather in Central Park NY in May 2003
central.park.cloud | Type of day in Central Park, NY May 2003
ceo2013 | CEO compensation in 2013
cfb | Bootstrap sample from the Survey of Consumer Finances
chicken | weight gain of chickens fed 3 different rations
chips | Measurements of chip wafers
co2emiss | Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the U.S.A. from fossil fuel
coins | The coins in my change bin
coldvermont | Daily minimum temperature in Woodstock Vermont
confint.htest | Produce confidence interval for objects of class 'htest'
corn | Comparison of corn for new and standard variety
crime | violent crime rates in 50 states of US

## -- D --

deflection | Deflection under load
demos | Provide menu for possible shiny demonstrations
DensityPlot | Plots densities of data
DensityPlot.default | Plots densities of data
DensityPlot.formula | Plots densities of data
diamond | Price by size for diamond rings
divorce | Time until divorce for divorced women (by age)
dnstyplt | Plots densities of data
DOTplot | Make big DOT plot likestripchart
DOTplot.default | Make big DOT plot likestripchart
DOTplot.formula | Make big DOT plot likestripchart
DOTplt | Make big DOT plot likestripchart
dottodot | Dot-to-dot puzzle
dowdata | The Dow Jones average from Jan 1999 to October 2000
dvdsales | Monthly DVD player sales since introduction to May 2004

## -- E --

emissions | CO2 emissions data and gross domestic product for 26 countries
errata | Show errata
ewr | Taxi in and taxi out times at EWR (Newark) airport for 1999-2001
exec.pay | Direct compensation for 199 United States CEOs in the year 2000

## -- F --

fat | Body measurements to predict percentage of body fat in males
father.son | Pearson's data set on heights of fathers and their sons
female.inc | Income distribution for females in 2001
firstchi | Age of mother at birth of first child
five.yr.temperature | Five years of weather in New York City
florida | County-by-county results of year 2000 US presidential election in Florida

## -- G --

galileo | Galileo data on falling bodies
galton | Galton's height data for parents and children
gap | Sales data for the Gap
gasprices | Monthly average gasoline prices in the United States
getAnswer | function to get answer to problem
goalspergame | Goals per game in NHL
google | Google stock values during 2005-02-07 to 2005-07-07
grades | Current and previous grades
grip | Effects of cross-country ski-pole grip

## -- H --

hall.fame | Data frame containing baseball statistics including Hall of Fame membership
headtail | Show head and tail
healthy | Healthy or not?
heartrate | Simulated data of age vs. max heart rate
home | Maplewood NJ homedata
homedata | Maplewood NJ assessed values for years 1970 and 2000
homeprice | Sale price of homes in New Jersey in the year 2001
homework | Homework averages for Private and Public schools
HUMMER | Deliveries of new HUMMER vehicles

## -- I --

income_percentiles | Top percentiles of U.S. income
iq | IQ scores

## -- K --

kid.weights | Weight and height measurement for a sample of U.S. children
KSI | Data set on automobile deaths and injuries in Great Britain

## -- L --

last.tie | Last tie in 100 coin tosses
lawsuits | Law suit settlements
lorem | Placeholder text

## -- M --

malpract | malpractice settlements
mandms | Proportions of colors in various M and M's varieties
math | Standardized math scores
maydow | Dow Jones industrial average and May maximum temperature
Medicare | Sample from "Medicare Provider Charge Data"
midsize | Price of new and used of three mid-sized cars
MLBattend | Major league baseball attendance data
movies | Data frome on top 25 movies for some week, many weeks ago
movie_data_2011 | Movie data for 2011 by weekend
mw.ages | Age distribution in year 2000 in Maplewood New Jersey

## -- N --

nba.draft | NBA draft lottery odds for 2002
nisdc | NISCD
normtemp | Body temperature and heart rate of 130 health individuals
npdb | National Practioner Data Bank
nym.2002 | Random sample of 2002 New York City Marathon finishers

## -- O --

ObamaApproval | Approval ratings for President Obama
OBP | On base percentage for 2002 major league baseball season
oral.lesion | Oral lesion location by town
ozonemonthly | Monthly mean ozone values at Halley Bay Antartica

## -- P --

paradise | Annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station, Mount Ranier
pi2000 | first 2000 digits of pi
primes | Primes numbers less than 2003
puerto | Incomes for Puerto Rican immigrants to Miami

## -- Q --

QQplot | Creates a qqplot with shaded density estimate

## -- R --

rat | Survival times of 20 rats exposed to radiation
reaction.time | Reaction time with cell phone usage
reddrum | Growth of red drum

## -- S --

salmon.rate | Simulated Data on Rate of Recruitment for Salmon
salmonharvest | Salmon harvest in Alaska from 1980 to 1998
samhda | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data for teens
SAT | SAT data with expenditures
scatter.with.hist | Scatterplot with histograms
scrabble | Distribution of Scrabble pieces
simple.chutes | simulate a chutes and ladder game
simple.densityplot | Plots densities of data
simple.densityplot.default | Plots densities of data
simple.densityplot.formula | Plots densities of data
simple.eda | Simple function to plot histogram, boxplot and normal plot
simple.eda.ts | Makes 3 useful graphs for eda of times series
simple.fancy.stripchart | Makes a fancier strip chart: plots means and a line
simple.freqpoly | Simply plot histogram and frequency polygon
simple.hist.and.boxplot | A function to plot both a histogram and a boxplot
simple.lag | applies function to moving subsets of a data vector
simple.lm | Simplify usage of lm
simple.median.test | Do simple sign test for median - no ranks
simple.plot.hist.and.box | A function to plot both a histogram and a boxplot
simple.scatterplot | Simple scatter plot of x versus y with histograms of each
simple.sim | Simplify the process of simulation
simple.violinplot | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots
simple.violinplot.default | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots
simple.violinplot.formula | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots
simple.z.test | Implement basic z-test for illustrative purposes
skateranks | Judges scores for disputed ice skating competition
slc | Sodium-Lithium countertransport
smokyph | Water pH levels at 75 water samples in the Great Smoky Mountains
snacks | Snack data from the USDA
south | Murder rates for 30 Southern US cities
southernosc | Southern Oscillations
sp500.excess | Excess returns of S&P 500
Split.zoo | Add split method for zoo objects
squareplot | Create a squareplot alternative to a segmented barplot
stud.recs | Student records
student.expenses | Some simulated data on student expenses
superbarplot | super segmented barplot

## -- T --

tastesgreat | Does new goo taste great?
tcm1y | One-year treasury security values
tempsalinity | Temperature/Salinity measurements along a moving Eddy
too.young | What age is too young for a male to data a female?
twins | Burt's IQ data for twins

## -- U --

u2 | Song and lengths for U2 albums
urchin.growth | Data on growth of sea urchins

## -- V --

vacation | vacation days
violinplot | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots
violinplot.default | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots
violinplot.formula | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots
vlnplt | Plots violinplots instead of boxplots

## -- W --

watertemp | Temperature measurement of water at 85m depth
wchomes | A random sample of Wake County, North Carolina residential real estate plots
wellbeing | What makes us happy?

## -- Y --

yahoo.get.hist.quote | Download stock data from Yahoo!
yellowfin | Yellow fin tuna catch rate in Tropical Indian Ocean