Shower flow rates (L/min) from 129 randomly selected homes
from Perth, Western Australia. For a single household over a given
period of time the (average) shower flow rate is the total volume of water
used in showering divided by the total duration of all showers. (From
"An Application of Bayes Methodology to the Analysis of Diary Records from
a Water Use Study" by IR James & MW Knuiman, Journal of the American
Statistical Association82, 1987, pp. 705-711.)
Individual sallaries made by the 381 players in the American League
in the year 2003. The figures are in US Dollars. (Available in the
internet at
http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/data.set6.html)
The cited source contains also player's team, name and
playing position associated with each sallary.
Crime statistics for 47 US states in 1960. The value recorded is the
crime rate defined as the number of offenses reported to police per
million population. The data were collected from the FBI's Uniform
Crime Report and other government agencies.
Average SAT score for each of 49 US states achieved in
the year 2002. The SAT (Scholastic Assesment Test) is a typical entrance
requirement in US universities. The data included are the total scores
where the scores for all the test components were added.
