README.md

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

fosdata

The fosdata package contains datasets for the textbook Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair.

Installation

Install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")  # if needed
remotes::install_github("speegled/fosdata")

Package Contents

| Name | Description | Dim (RxC) | |:--------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------|:----------| | accelerometer | Visual and accelerometer data on workouts | 12245x25 | | acorns | Acorn Size and Geographical Range | 39x5 | | adipose | BMI and Visceral Adipose Tissue Mass | 81x12 | | austen | Full text of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen | 282295x7 | | barnacles | Barnacle distribution on coral reefs | 134x8 | | bechdel | The Bechdel test | 1794x15 | | bicycle_signage | Bicycle Signage and Safety | 1824x11 | | biomass | Biomass of insects in German nature protection areas | 1512x8 | | brake | Pedal Error Correction | 80x20 | | cern | Social Media Engagement of Particle Physicists | 214x11 | | child_tasks | Shape Trail Test | 68x13 | | chimps | Gray haired chimpanzees | 165x159 | | cigs | Nicotine, Tar and CO of Cigarettes | 1294x9 | | cigs_small (cigs) | Nicotine, Tar and CO of Cigarettes | 118x9 | | climate | Citations of Climate Change Papers | 732x19 | | conversation | Conversational Dominance and Psychopathy | 210x28 | | covid | New York Times COVID 19 | 30814x5 | | cows | Cooling down hot cows | 798x9 | | cows_small | Cooling down hot cows | 19x4 | | crit_period | Critical Period Hypothesis | 138x3 | | dogs | Dogs and peer pressure | 351x9 | | draft | The 1970 Draft Lottery | 366x5 | | ecars | Electric vehicle charging sessions | 3395x17 | | fish | Fish measurements from Laengelmavesi Lake, near Tampere, Finland | 159x9 | | flint | Lead levels from tap water sampling in Flint, MI | 271x7 | | frogs | Frog measurements | 64x16 | | gender | Gender and race data from Google Android Panel survey | 20305x10 | | hot_dogs | Hot Dog Nutrition | 54x3 | | houses | Housing in King County | 21613x21 | | humanization | Infrahumanization of outgroups | 321x7 | | leg_strength | Wii Leg Strength | 30x3 | | leg_strength_full | Wii Leg Strength (full) | 30x17 | | letter_frequency | Letter Frequency List | 84x15 | | malaria | Malaria Transmission and Parasites | 180x3 | | masks | Masks and Influenza Exposure | 37x7 | | mice_pot | Mice on pot | 46x2 | | movies | MovieLens 100K | 100836x6 | | normtemp | Temperature and heart rate data | 130x3 | | plastics | Plastics in Snow | 237x4 | | powerball | Powerball draws from 2010-2020 | 1094x8 | | pres_election | US Presidential Election Data 2000-2016 | 50524x9 | | rio_instagram | Olympians Instagram Account Data | 226x14 | | scotland_births | Births in Scotland | 45x76 | | scrabble | Scrabble tile values | 100x2 | | scrabble_ml | Scrabble tile values | 613x3 | | seoulweather | Weather data for Seoul | 7752x25 | | sharks | Shark Documentary Music | 616x15 | | skull_geometry | Skull Geometry | 56x2 | | snails | Snails near Oxford, England | 228x5 | | weight_estimate | Weight lifting judgment in children | 80x7 | | world_cup | FIFA World Cup 2014-2015 Results | 116x8 | | wrist | Wrist Casts | 105x47 |

License

Most of the data sets in this package have a creative commons license. Providing the data in this convenient package is not meant to cancel or to modify the existing licenses in any way. Please refer to the references in the man pages for information on any individual data set.

Citation

To cite package fosdata in publications, use:

Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair (2021). fosdata: Data for use with the book “Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R”, by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair. R package version 0.2.0.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:

@Manual{,
  title = {fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A
Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair},
  author = {Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair},
  year = {2021},
  note = {R package version 0.2.0},
}

References

accelerometer

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0235156

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/R3ZKYH

acorns

Aizen, Marcelo & Patterson III, William. (1990). Acorn Size and Geographical Range in the North American Oaks (Quercus L.). Journal of Biogeography. 17. 327. 10.2307/2845128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2845128

adipose

Swainson MG, Batterham AM, Tsakirides C, Rutherford ZH, Hind K (2017) Prediction of whole-body fat percentage and visceral adipose tissue mass from five anthropometric variables. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177175. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177175

austen

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/158/158-0.txt and https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-0.txt

barnacles

Maher RL, Johnston MA, Brandt ME, Smith TB, Correa AMS (2018) Depth and coral cover drive the distribution of a coral macroborer across two reef systems. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0199462. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199462

bechdel

“The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women”, Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight, April 1, 2014.

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/bechdel

bicycle_signage

Hess G, Peterson MN (2015) “Bicycles May Use Full Lane” Signage Communicates U.S. Roadway Rules and Increases Perception of Safety. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0136973. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136973

biomass

Hallmann CA, Sorg M, Jongejans E, Siepel H, Hofland N, Schwan H, et al. (2017) More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185809 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

brake

Hasegawa K, Kimura M, Takeda Y (2020) Age-related differences in correction behavior for unintended acceleration. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236053.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236053

https://osf.io/mre6y/?view_only=5af130ecc3234435b7a7ffc1ba6c391f

cern

Kahle K, Sharon AJ, Baram-Tsabari A (2016) Footprints of Fascination: Digital Traces of Public Engagement with Particle Physics on CERN’s Social Media Platforms. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156409. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156409

child_tasks

Chan AYC, Morgan S-J (2018) Assessing children’s cognitive flexibility with the Shape Trail Test. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0198254.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198254

chimps

Tapanes E, Anestis S, Kamilar JM, Bradley BJ (2020) Does facial hair greying in chimpanzees provide a salient progressive cue of aging? PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235610. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235610

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.f7m0cfxs7

cigs

‘“Tar,” nicotine, and carbon monoxide of the smoke of 1294 varieties of domestic cigarettes for the year 1998. Federal Trade Commission report, 2000.’

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2000-report-tar-nicotine-and-carbon-monoxide-covering-1998/1998tarnicotinereport_0.pdf

climate

Hillier A, Kelly RP, Klinger T (2016) Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167983

conversation

Manson JH, Gervais MM, Fessler DMT, Kline MA (2014) Subclinical Primary Psychopathy, but Not Physical Formidability or Attractiveness, Predicts Conversational Dominance in a Zero-Acquaintance Situation. PLoS ONE 9(11): e113135.

Gervais Matthew M., Kline Michelle, Ludmer Mara, George Rachel and Manson Joseph H. 2013The strategy of psychopathy: primary psychopathic traits predict defection on low-value relationshipsProc. R. Soc. B.28020122773

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bx584t4

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.848cc

covid

https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

cows

Tucker, Cassandra B., Schütz, Karin E., & Van Os (Chen), Jennifer M. (2020). Data from: Cooling cows efficiently with sprinklers: physiological responses to water spray [Data set].

https://zenodo.org/record/3862181#.XwTRNpNKjEa

cows_small

Tucker, Cassandra B., Schütz, Karin E., & Van Os (Chen), Jennifer M. (2020). Data from: Cooling cows efficiently with sprinklers: physiological responses to water spray [Data set].

https://zenodo.org/record/3862181#.XwTRNpNKjEa

crit_period

Vanhove J (2013) The Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition: A Statistical Critique and a Reanalysis. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69172.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0069172

dogs

“Germar M, Sultan A, Kaminski J, Mojzisch A (2018) Dogs (Canis familiaris) stick to what they have learned rather than conform to their conspecifics’ behavior. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0194808.”

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194808

“Germar, Markus, and Andreas Mojzisch. 2018. “Dogs (Canis Familiaris) Stick to What They Have Learned rather than Conform to Their Conspecifics’ Behavior.” OSF. April 4. osf.io/dgtxt."

draft

United States Government Selective Service System. https://www.sss.gov/history-and-records/vietnam-lotteries/

ecars

Asensio, Omar Isaac; Apablaza, Camila Z; Lawson, M. Cade; Walsh, Sarah Elizabeth, 2020, “Replication Data for: A Field Experiment on Workplace Norms and Electric Vehicle Charging Etiquette”

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NFPQLW

fish

"Brofeldt, Pekka: Bidrag till kaennedom on fiskbestondet i vaara sjoear. Laengelmaevesi. T.H.Jaervi: Finlands Fiskeriet Band 4 Meddelanden utgivna av fiskerifoereningen i Finland. Helsingfors 1917

http://jse.amstat.org/datasets/fishcatch.txt

flint

FlintWaterStudy.org (2015) “Lead Results from Tap Water Sampling in Flint, MI during the Flint Water Crisis”

http://flintwaterstudy.org/2015/12/complete-dataset-lead-results-in-tap-water-for-271-flint-samples/

frogs

Howlader MSA, Nair A, Merilä J (2016) A New Species of Frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) Discovered from the Mega City of Dhaka. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0149597

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149597

gender

Sell R, Goldberg S, Conron K (2015) The Utility of an Online Convenience Panel for Reaching Rare and Dispersed Populations. PLOS ONE 10(12): e0144011.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144011

hot_dogs

Moore, David S., and George P. McCabe (1989). Introduction to the Practice of Statistics. Original source: Consumer Reports, June 1986, pp. 366-367.

http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_012708_ID_Data_HotDogs

houses

https://www.kaggle.com/harlfoxem/housesalesprediction

humanization

Davies T, Yogeeswaran K, Verkuyten M, Loughnan S (2018) From humanitarian aid to humanization: When outgroup, but not ingroup, helping increases humanization. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207343

Davies, Thomas J. “Humanitarian Helping.” OSF, 25 Oct. 2018. Web.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207343

leg_strength

Gronbech Jorgensen M, Andersen S, Ryg J, Masud T (2015) Novel Use of the Nintendo Wii Board for Measuring Isometric Lower Limb Strength: A Reproducible and Valid Method in Older Adults. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0138660.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138660

leg_strength_full

Gronbech Jorgensen M, Andersen S, Ryg J, Masud T (2015) Novel Use of the Nintendo Wii Board for Measuring Isometric Lower Limb Strength: A Reproducible and Valid Method in Older Adults. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0138660.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138660

letter_frequency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency on January 9, 2020

malaria

Churcher TS, Sinden RE, Edwards NJ, Poulton ID, Rampling TW, Brock PM, et al. (2017) Probability of Transmission of Malaria from Mosquito to Human Is Regulated by Mosquito Parasite Density in Naïve and Vaccinated Hosts. PLoS Pathog 13(1): e1006108. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006108

masks

Milton DK, Fabian MP, Cowling BJ, Grantham ML, McDevitt JJ (2013) Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks. PLoS Pathog 9(3): e1003205. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003205

mice_pot

Viñals X, Moreno E, Lanfumey L, Cordomí A, Pastor A, de La Torre R, et al. (2015) Cognitive Impairment Induced by Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol Occurs through Heteromers between Cannabinoid CB1 and Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptors. PLoS Biol 13(7): e1002194. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002194

movies

F. Maxwell Harper and Joseph A. Konstan. 2015. The MovieLens Datasets: History and Context. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 5, 4: 19:1–19:19. https://doi.org/10.1145/2827872

normtemp

“Datasets and Stories” article “What’s Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate” in the Journal of Statistics Education (Shoemaker 1996).

http://jse.amstat.org/datasets/normtemp.dat.txt

http://jse.amstat.org/v4n2/datasets.shoemaker.html

Mackowiak, Wasserman, and Levine, “A Critical Appraisal of 98.6 Degrees F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature, and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich”, JAMA 1992.

plastics

Bergmann M, Mützel S, Primpke S, Tekman MB, Trachsel J, Gerdts G. White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic. Sci Adv. 2019 Aug 14;5(8).doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax1157. PMID: 31453336; PMCID: PMC6693909.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaax1157

powerball

data.gov, https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/lottery-powerball-winning-numbers-beginning-2010

pres_election

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, 2018, “County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V6, UNF:6:ZZe1xuZ5H2l4NUiSRcRf8Q== [fileUNF]

rio_instagram

Amirhosein Bodaghi. (2019). Instagram Characteristics of Olympic gold medalists (Rio2016) [Data set]. Zenodo.

http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469514

scotland_births

National Records of Scotland, https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/births/births-time-series-data

scrabble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions

scrabble_ml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions

seoulweather

‘Cho, D., Yoo, C., Im, J., & Cha, D. (2020). Comparative assessment of various machine learning-based bias correction methods for numerical weather prediction model forecasts of extreme air temperatures in urban areas. Earth and Space Science.’

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Bias+correction+of+numerical+prediction+model+temperature+forecast

sharks

Nosal AP, Keenan EA, Hastings PA, Gneezy A (2016) The Effect of Background Music in Shark Documentaries on Viewers’ Perceptions of Sharks. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159279. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159279

skull_geometry

Li, Zhigang et al. (2016), Data from: A statistical skull geometry model for children 0-3 years old, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p4p62

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.p4p62

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127322

snails

Cain, A., Sheppard, P. Selection in the polymorphic land snail Cepæa nemoralis. Heredity 4, 275–294 (1950). Data is from Table 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1950.22

weight_estimate

Sciutti A, Patanè L, Sandini G (2019) Development of visual perception of others’ actions: Children’s judgment of lifted weight. PLoS ONE 14(11): e0224979

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0224979

Sciutti Alessandra, Patane’ Laura, & Sandini Giulio. (2019). Dataset - weight lifting judgment in children [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3524881

world_cup

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/2014-fifa-world-cup-tv-schedule-results/story?id=23748377 and https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/2015-fifa-womens-world-cup-complete-tournament-results/story?id=31204768

wrist

Raittio L, Launonen AP, Hevonkorpi T, Luokkala T, Kukkonen J, Reito A, et al. (2020) Two casting methods compared in patients with Colles’ fracture: A pragmatic, randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232153.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0232153

speegled/fosdata documentation built on Feb. 8, 2025, 8:17 a.m.