Case Studies in Biometry

The datasets in this collection came from the book CASE STUDIES IN BIOMETRY, by Nicholas Lange, Louise Ryan and Lynne Billard, David Brillinger, Loveday Conquest, Joel Greenhouse, (1994) Wiley, 0-471-58925-X. The ".txt" files contain a complete description of the data.

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=============== ORIGINAL README FILE=================


                      Data Diskette for
                  CASE STUDIES IN BIOMETRY

By Nicholas Lange, Louise Ryan and Lynne Billard, David Brillinger,
Loveday Conquest, Joel Greenhouse.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., copyright 1994.  
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You have obtained all of the data used by all of the authors in the
twenty-one chapters of Case Studies in Biometry.  

Please note permissions and usage information included in
the .txt file for each subset.

You will need approximately 7MB space for the files.
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Each chapter contains either one or two data sets, except for Chapter 19,
which has seven data sets. Corresponding to each data set are ASCII files
with extensions ".dat" (the data), ".txt" (the data description file), and 
".sas" (a simple SAS program to read the .dat file). 

For chapters containing only one data set, the file name prefix is 
"ch" followed by chapter number, and then the above extensions.
For instance, for Chapter 2 you will find files "ch2.dat",
"ch2.txt", and "ch2.sas".

For chapters containing two data sets, the letters "a" and "b" are
added after the chapter number. For instance, for Chapter 1, you will
find the files "ch1a.dat", "ch1a.txt", "ch1a.sas", "ch1b.dat",
"ch1b.txt", "ch1b.sas".

For chapter 19, there are seven data sets, ch19a.dat
through ch19g.dat.  Each one has the same format, but
refers to different subsets of the whole data set.  
Details are given in the single text file, ch19.txt.

Please note permissions and usage information included in
the .txt file for each subset.

Here is a short index of the chapters, including the methods used in those chapters.

Here is an index of methods, by chapter
2-D random walk 1
Analysis of variance 5, 9
Case-control studies 10
Clinical trials 16, 17
Cluster detection 1
Cox proportional hazards regression 7, 12, 19
Cross-validation 6
Design 5, 17, 20
Dose-response 2, 5, 21
Errors-in-variables 4
Estimated generalized least squares 5
Event history analysis 18
Extra-Poisson variation 2
Factor analysis 17
Generalized estimating equations 9
Generalized linear models 2
Genetic linkage analysis 8
Geographical analysis machine 1
Gibbs sampling 18
Graphical models 18
Group sequential methods 14
Interrater agreement 16, 17
Inverse prediction 4
Kaplan-Meier survival curves 7
Kriging 6
Logistic regression 10, 13, 19, 20, 21
Loglinear models 16
Longitudinal data 5, 9, 11, 18
Markov chain Monte Carlo 18
Maximum likelihood estimation 8
Measurement error models 4
Mixed effects 5
Mixture models 8
Model selection 3, 7, 10, 11, 12
Multinomial models 8
Multiple linear regression 3
Ordered categorical 16
Poisson regression 2
Principal components 17
Quality control 17
Randomized complete blocks 5
Regression diagnostics 3, 7, 11, 13
Repeated measures 5, 9, 18
Resampling 2
Residuals analysis 3, 4, 13, 
Response surface analysis 10
Sampling 4, 6, 10, 11, 13, 19, 20
Screening 15
Semivariograms 6
Spatial point processes 1
Splines 19
Split-plots 5
Survival analysis 7, 12, 14, 15, 19
Time series 9, 11
Transformations 5, 6, 9, 12
Variance components 5
Voronoi polygons 1

The available files and their sizes are:
ch1a.dat
30,020 bytes
ch1a.sas
123 bytes
ch1a.txt
956 bytes
ch1b.dat
288 bytes
ch1b.sas
121 bytes
ch1b.txt
1,003 bytes
ch2.dat
864 bytes
ch2.sas
252 bytes
ch2.txt
535 bytes
ch3a.dat
2,294 bytes
ch3a.sas
168 bytes
ch3a.txt
1,209 bytes
ch3b.dat
6,054 bytes
ch3b.sas
157 bytes
ch3b.txt
2,252 bytes
ch4a.dat
1,791 bytes
ch4a.sas
92 bytes
ch4a.txt
525 bytes
ch4b.dat
229 bytes
ch4b.sas
102 bytes
ch4b.txt
728 bytes
ch5.dat
74,486 bytes
ch5.sas
182 bytes
ch5.txt
2197 bytes
ch6.dat
5,239 bytes
ch6.sas
158 bytes
ch6.txt
931 bytes
ch7.dat
19,111 bytes
ch7.sas
161 bytes
ch7.txt
820 bytes
ch8.dat
828 bytes
ch8.sas
118 bytes
ch8.txt
382 bytes
ch9.dat
231,661 bytes
ch9.sas
120 bytes
ch9.txt
774 bytes
ch10.dat
2,284 bytes
ch10.sas
126 bytes
ch10.txt
897 bytes
ch11a.dat
2,295 bytes
ch11a.sas
120 bytes
ch11a.txt
603 bytes
ch11b.dat
2,102 bytes
ch11b.sas
120 bytes
ch11b.txt
661 bytes
ch12.dat
26,333 bytes
ch12.sas
137 bytes
ch12.txt
502 bytes
ch13.dat
116,615 bytes
ch13.sas
109 bytes
ch13.txt
4,906 bytes
ch14.dat
9,490 bytes
ch14.sas
267 bytes
ch14.txt
827 bytes
ch15.dat
56,760 bytes
ch15.sas
141 bytes
ch15.txt
1,207 bytes
ch16a.dat
7,080 bytes
ch16a.sas
89 bytes
ch16a.txt
1,013 bytes
ch16b.dat
6,120 bytes
ch16b.sas
94 bytes
ch16b.txt
693 bytes
ch17.dat
5,644 bytes
ch17.sas
205 bytes
ch17.txt
1,040 bytes
ch18a.dat
16,982 bytes
ch18a.sas
118 bytes
ch18a.txt
758 bytes
ch18b.dat
78,120 bytes
ch18b.sas
118 bytes
ch18b.txt
729 bytes
ch19.sas
249 bytes
ch19.txt
1,969 bytes
ch19a.dat
43,010 bytes
ch19b.dat
650,531 bytes
ch19c.dat
586,296 bytes
ch19d.dat
1,118,997 bytes
ch19e.dat
1,443,392 bytes
ch19f.dat
680,198 bytes
ch19g.dat
903,759 bytes
ch20.dat
16,2640 bytes
ch20.sas
146 bytes
ch20.txt
1592 bytes
ch21a.dat
32,448 bytes
ch21a.sas
113 bytes
ch21a.txt
933 bytes
ch21b.dat
36,722 bytes
ch21b.sas
109 bytes
ch21b.txt
960 bytes