The following datasets are available in addition to the ones in the
pop-down menu on the Histograms
page. The links below contain the raw data needed to construct a
histogram.
- Atomic
Weight of Silver
Scientists at NIST took 48 measurements of the atomic weight of a
reference sample of silver using two nearly identical mass
spectrometers. This project was undertaken in conjunction with the
redetermination of the Faraday constant.
Reference: Powell, L.J., Murphy, T.J. and Gramlich, J.W. (1982). "The
Absolute Isotopic Abundance & Atomic Weight of a Reference Sample of
Silver". NBS Journal of Research, 87, pp. 9-19. Source:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/div898/strd/anova/Ag_Atomic_Wt.html
- Density
of the Earth
This dataset contains 29 measurements of the density of the earth,
obtained by Henry Cavendish in 1798 using a torsion balance. Density is
presented as a multiple of the density of water.
Reference: Moore, David S., and George P. McCabe (1989). Introduction
to the Practice of Statistics. Original source: Stigler, S.M., "Do
robust estimators work with real data?" Annals of Statistics, 5 (1977),
pp. 1055-1078. Source:
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/Cavendish.html
- Old
Faithful
Duration in minutes of the eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser in
Yellowstone National Park. 108 measurements Source:
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/Histogram.html
- Pi
Digits
The first 5000 digits of the mathemtatical constant pi (=
3.1415926535897932384...) were reported in Mathematics of Computation,
January 1962, page 76.
Interesting questions involving pi digits: 1) Are the digits
uniformly distributed? 2) Is there serial correlation between
successive digits? Source: NIST National Institute of Standards
and Technology Statistical Reference Datasets
http://www.nist.gov/itl/div898/strd/univ/pidigits.html
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