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Handbook of Small Datasets

3 messages · Bob, Jeff Laux, Dennis Murphy

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Bob
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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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Jeff Laux
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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:
Dennis Murphy
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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 <jefflaux at gmail.com> wrote: