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Examples for a First Course in Statistics

Independence and Counting Techniques

• Air Safety
• Greyhounds in the Bundaberg Cup

Poisson Variation

• Testicular Cancer in Fire Fighters
• Position of Houses in a Japanese Farming Village (3)

Single Sample

• Width to Length Ratios in Shoshoni Handicraft (1)
• Annual Maximums of Daily Rainfall in Sydney (1)
• Founding Dates of NZ Wineries (1)
• Kiama Blowhole Eruptions (1)
• Times between Nerve Pulses (1)

Inference about a Proportion

• Deathday and Birthday
• Pulse Rates before and after Exercise (11)

Control Charts

• Inner Diameter of Landing Gear Triunion (1)

Two Samples

• Lengths of New Zealand Rivers (2)
• Maintaining Balance while Concentrating (3)
• Times of Passages of Play in Rugby (3)
• Cholesterol levels after a heart attack (4)

Paired Samples

• The Moon Illusion (3)
• Helmet Sizes for New Zealand Air Force (1)
• Mark Taylor's Test Cricket Scores (2)
• Cholesterol levels after a heart attack (4)
• Effect of Vitamin C on Muscular Endurance (4)
• Using Reiki to Manage Pain (4)
• Pulse Rates before and after Exercise (11)

Comparison of Proportions

• Occurrence of Grey Hair
• Using Thalidomide to Heal Mouth Ulcers of AIDS Patients
• Golden Casket Draw
• Morgan Gallup Poll of Unemployment
• Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (5)

Contingency Tables

• Causes of Death in WA (2)
• Activities of Dolphin Groups (3)
• The use of Psychological Testing to Predict Senile Dementia
• Alcohol, Hypertension and Obesity (3)
• Passengers on the Titanic (4)
• Car Preferences (22)

Goodness of Fit Tests

• Position of Houses in a Japanese Farming Village (3)

Correlation

• Measurements on Babies (3)
• Evaluation Tools for Stroke Rehabilitation (15)

Simple Linear Regression

• Cancer Mortality near Hanford Reactor (2)
• Distance of Cars from Cyclists (2)
• Prediction of Height from Metacarpal Bone Length (2)
• Bar of Soap (2)
• Deaths caused by firearms (2)
• Kittiwake Colonies (2)
• PCB Concentrations in Lake Trout (2)
• Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Winning Times (2)
• Age vs Price for Mazda Cars (2)
• Capital and Rental Values of Auckland Properties (2)
• Blood CPK in Cross-Country Skiers (2)
• Trained monkeys (2)
• Olympic Winning Distances for High Jump, Discus and Long Jump (4)
• Olympic Medals (4)
• Countries of Asia (5)
• AFL Crowd Attendance at the MCG (8)
• Voting Irregularities in Palm Beach County during the 2000 US Presidential Election

Polynomial Regression

• Density of Great Barrier Reef Coral Heads (3)
• Child Respiratory Disease (5)

One Way ANOVA

• Eye colour and flicker frequency (2)
• Pain Thresholds of Blonds and Brunettes (2)
• Resistivity of Silicon Wafers (2)
• Times of Passages of Play in Rugby (3)
• Pollution in the Wolf River (3)

Outliers

• Finding the Antarctic ozone hole