| 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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