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Natural history data sets

A series of three large data sets with notes for teachers. These data sets have been made available through The Royal Statistical Society as part of its support for statistics education in schools.

Blackbirds involves: averages, spread, graphical summaries, dealing with missing data, and general linear modelling. [Source: Chris du Feu]

Magpies involves: averages, spread, graphical summaries, dealing with missing data, time series, and categorical data. [Source: EURING – Thanks are due to all European ringing schemes which have agreed to release these ringing recovery data, and to the very many ringers, throughout more than a century, who have contributed to this data set.]

Slugs involves: grouping data, contingency tables, and dealing with missing data. [Source: Chris du Feu]

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    Blackbirds (data set and notes for teachers)

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    Magpies (data set and notes for teachers)

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    Slugs (data set and notes for teachers)

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