Data on newborn babies and their mothers, collected at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1986. Adapted from the birthwt data from the MASS package.
Death counts per 100 000 people for various causes of death in several age groups in the USA, in 1950 and in 2005. Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control, supplemented by Bryan Caplan. From the book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (table 4.3 in chapter 4: What About the Children?).
Athletes' performance in the 10 events of the decathlon at the Decastar and Olympic Games competitions in 2004. Adapted from the decathlon data from the FactoMineR package.
Some people's waist sizes, weights, and proportion of body fat. From the book Intro Stats by De Veaux, Velleman, & Bock (from the exercises to chapter 8: Linear Regression).
Some people's heights and weights, and their ages, collected at the HuMoSim laboratory at the University of Michigan. Adapted from the bigger seatpos data from the faraway package.
The mean age at first marriage, for men and women in the USA in various years. From the book Intro Stats by De Veaux, Velleman, & Bock (from the exercises to chapter 9: Regression Wisdom).
Some very non-normally-distributed ratings, divided into two groups. Data posted to StackExchange by Henrik Singmann.
A small subset of just 14 of the ratings from the ratings data.
Speed and accuracy of eye movements from several subjects in an eye tracking experiment. Slightly simplified from the full set of data.
Survival of passengers on the Titanic. Data collected by the British Board of Trade. Adapted from the Titanic data in R (by converting from a table into a data frame).
Several wine experts' mean ratings of 10 wines, on many different features. Adapted from tutorials provided to accompany the FactoMineR package.