Titlebook: Case Studies in Data Analysis; Jane F. Gentleman,G. A. Whitmore Book 1994 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1994 Area.Simula.Volume.boundary

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In with the New, Out with the Old,n iceberg movements, weather, and ocean conditions in the vicinity of an oil-drilling platform in the South Labrador Sea during the 1980 summer drilling season. The analysts’ task was to use the data to construct a probabilistic forecasting model of iceberg motion which could provide a platform oper

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Making Contact with CompuServe,e study, the analysts were provided with hourly readings on wind speed, wind direction, and barometric pressure at five Canadian stations for observation periods ranging over several recent decades. Their assignment was to calculate point and interval estimates of 10-, 20-, 50-, and 100-year return

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0870-9anada, including the portion of this need that may be hidden. We utilize the Family History Survey conducted by Statistics Canada (1984) to explore patterns of both met and unmet child-care needs, based, in the latter case, on varying assumptions about the degree of parents’ desire for child care.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0870-9ploits the correlation that exists between mutagenic potential and carcinogenic potential. The data for this case study came from an international study involving 20 laboratories in nine countries. The laboratories participated in a designed experiment in which substances (complex chemical mixtures

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Making Contact with CompuServe,Detailed data describing all homicides in Canada known to the police are collected by Statistics Canada. In this study, three independent teams of analysts search for seasonality and other temporal patterns in homicide rates and frequencies between 1961 and 1980.

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Estimation of the mutagenic potency of environmental chemicals using short-term bioassay,ccording to a prescribed factorial experimental design. Three sets of analysts participated in this case study. They were asked to model the dose-response relationship for two substances, to develop an index of the strength of the relationship, and to assess intra- and inter-laboratory variation in

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