That's what the book is for: its purpose is to describe the variables and context of each data set. The book 'Data' by Andrews and Herzberg (1985) is similar in that respect. As I mentioned to Bob privately, I thought about making a R package of the data sets in HDLMO several years ago because I used a number of them in teaching, but then realized that if I wrote the help pages, I'd essentially be violating the copyright of the book...so that project died. But I do have a collection of R objects for the data sets which I'm editing and hope to finish before the weekend is out. Bob prefers a zipped csv archive, but I can make an R binary available (or a zipped version of .Rdata files) if anyone is interested.
Dennis On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Laux <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See >> http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html >> _ >> | | Robert W. Hayden >> | | 142 Main Street >> / | Apartment 104 >> | | Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452 USA >> | | email: bob@ the site below >> / | website: http://statland.org >> | x / phone: (603) 532-7224 (home) >> '''''' >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching >> > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
