" File README ----------- chscase A collection of the data sets used in the book \"A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis,\" by Samprit Chatterjee, Mark S. Handcock and Jeffrey S. Simonoff, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995. Submitted by Samprit Chatterjee (schatterjee@stern.nyu.edu), Mark Handcock (mhandcock@stern.nyu.edu) and Jeff Simonoff (jsimonoff@stern.nyu.edu) This submission consists of 38 files, plus this README file. Each file represents a data set analyzed in the book. The names of the files correspond to the names used in the book. The data files are written in plain ASCII (character) text. Missing values are represented by \"M\" in all data files. More information about the data sets and the book can be obtained via gopher at the address swis.stern.nyu.edu The information is filed under ---> Academic Departments & Research Centers ---> Statistics and Operations Research ---> Publications ---> A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis ---> Welcome! It can also be accessed from the World Wide Web (WWW) using a WWW browser (e.g., netscape) starting from the URL address http://www.stern.nyu.edu/SOR/Casebook NOTICE: These datasets may be used freely for scientific, educational and/or non-commercial purposes, provided suitable acknowledgment is given (by citing the Chatterjee, Handcock and Simonoff reference above). File: adopt.dat Note: attribute names were generated automatically since there was no information in the data itself. Information about the dataset CLASSTYPE: numeric CLASSINDEX: none specific " "0" "chscase-adopt" "Africa" "Belize" "Bolivia" "Brazil" "Cambodia" "Canada" "Chile" "China" "Colombia" "Costa_Rica" "Dominican_Republic" "Ecuador" "El_Salvador" "Greece" "Guatamala" "Haiti" "Honduras" "Hong_Kong" "Hungary" "India" "Jamaica" "Japan" "Lebanon" "Mexico" "Nicaragua" "Oceania" "Pakistan" "Panama" "Paraguay" "Peru" "Phillipines" "Poland" "Portugal" "Romania" "South_Korea" "Taiwan" "Thailand" "Turkey" "Vietnam" 28 6 21 164 0 12 252 52 699 73 54 41 88 10 209 41 161 49 6 698 30 69 23 123 5 15 10 23 300 142 476 51 17 0 4942 56 75 11 1 41 4 51 178 59 12 263 62 527 55 50 11 122 5 324 52 244 40 25 448 39 83 17 106 11 16 9 10 177 722 417 95 10 2552 1817 55 127 6 17 63 8 74 139 16 6 176 201 403 65 41 36 115 -2147483648 428 49 253 27 24 348 29 71 16 104 8 13 15 15 244 324 353 109 -2147483648 145 1787 35 90 7 23 "col_1" "col_2" "col_3" "col_4" "col_1" "int0" "nominal:Africa,Belize,Bolivia,Brazil,Cambodia,Canada,Chile,China,Colombia,Costa_Rica,Dominican_Republic,Ecuador,El_Salvador,Greece,Guatamala,Haiti,Honduras,Hong_Kong,Hungary,India,Jamaica,Japan,Lebanon,Mexico,Nicaragua,Oceania,Pakistan,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Phillipines,Poland,Portugal,Romania,South_Korea,Taiwan,Thailand,Turkey,Vietnam" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric"