[R-sig-teaching] Handbook of Small Datasets

[Jeff Laux]

Yes.  They can be found on NC State's Statistics department's website:

      http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/working_groups/sas/sicl/data/

However, the accompanying stories don't exist.  What is posted is just 
tab delimited text files with numeric data.  Someone else will have to 
say what the numbers are supposed to mean.


On 1/30/2013 6:48 PM, Bob wrote:
> Just saw a mention of _Handbook of Small Datasets_.  Does anyone know
> if the data files ever got cleaned up and posted on the Internet?  I
> bought this when I came out and the disk included files that seemed to
> be created by cut and paste from the manuscript.  This meant that the
> "shape" of the data matched a typesetter's needs rather than a
> statistician's.  Most of the datasets needed considerable manual work
> before one could hand them off to students.  (I DID find what appeared
> to be the original disfunctional versions online.)  It's really sad
> that a collection that was such a good idea on paper was so poorly
> implemented.
>
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