Michael, You may find some data sets and activities at
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/lee1c/statact/ Some data sets of official statistics may be useful for your regression class. Most of the activities are for introductory statistics. The online interactive feature for the in-class activities is under construction. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Carl ------------------------------------- Michael Joner wrote: > The new semester has started and one of my first assignments has been to > find some datasets that I'd be interested in evaluating during some of my > classes. > > I spent some time searching the Internet for some interesting data. The > data available on StatLib is not exactly what I'd prefer to study > (although I guess if I can't find anything else I can always fall back on > StatLib), mainly because the data is not very recent to begin with. I > found some information but it seems that most of the information I've > found has been in PDF format or some other document-based format that > would be very difficult to read into SAS or S-PLUS. I can clean data if > needed but would rather not have to go to the trouble of parsing a Word > document (I also found some of them). > > The data would be for a Modern Regression Methods class. I need some > datasets with categorical variables and some datasets with continuous > variables (I guess some datasets with a mix of categorical and continuous > wouldn't be bad, either). > > Could someone here steer me in the direction of some good datasets? Some > of my interests include technology, sports, and vital statistics. > > Mike Joner > > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > ================================================================= ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
