stork

Data invented by Neyman to look at spurious correlations and adjusting
for lurking variables by looking at the relationship between storks and biths.

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Demonstration functions that can be used in a classroom to demonstrate statistical concepts, or on your own to better understand the concepts or the programming.

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stork function

A data frame with 54 observations on the following 6 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>County</code></dt>
<dd>ID of county</dd> <dt><code>Women</code></dt>
<dd>Number of Women (*10,000)</dd> <dt><code>No.storks</code></dt>
<dd>Number of Storks sighted</dd> <dt><code>No.babies</code></dt>
<dd>Number of Babies Born</dd> <dt><code>Stork.rate</code></dt>
<dd>Storks per 10,000 women (=No.storks/Women)</dd> <dt><code>Birth.rate</code></dt>
<dd>Babies per 10,000 women (=No.babies/Women)</dd> 
</dl>

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Neyman's Stork data — stork

A data frame with 54 observations on the following 6 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>County</code></dt>
<dd>ID of county</dd>

 <dt><code>Women</code></dt>
<dd>Number of Women (*10,000)</dd>

 <dt><code>No.storks</code></dt>
<dd>Number of Storks sighted</dd>

 <dt><code>No.babies</code></dt>
<dd>Number of Babies Born</dd>

 <dt><code>Stork.rate</code></dt>
<dd>Storks per 10,000 women (=No.storks/Women)</dd>

 <dt><code>Birth.rate</code></dt>
<dd>Babies per 10,000 women (=No.babies/Women)</dd>

 
</dl>

stork: Neyman's Stork data

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