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Temperature records of several lakes (from sattelite data)
      Data rejection, running mean and variance
      1. Issyk_Kul 2. Malawi 3. Ginghai 4. Superior 5. Tanganyika 6. Titicaca 7. Victoria


Collection of time series on a variety of topics
      Time series, and other topics

NOAA Paleoclimatology data access
      A variety of topics; time series, spatially distributed data, etc.

Financial time series (high, low, close) at Yahoo
      Time series, stochastic processes, trends, variance, correlation length, anova



Daily closing values of DJIA from 1-Oct-1928 to 17-Nov-2008
        Time series, testing for trends, patterns, and randomness
        DJIAclose.csv
 

Cosmic particles dataset from WALTA experiment
        Time series, series of events, testing for trends and randomness
        ParticleShower.txt
(date, time of event (s), time since last event (ns))
        EventsTimSer.m (matlab code)


Years of eruptions of the volcano Aso (Japan) for the period 1229-1962
        Time series, series of events, testing for trends and randomness
        VolcanoAso.txt
 

Climate records from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (through 18O isotopes)
        Time series, correlations, shifts in series, significance of correlations
        GreenAntarc.mat

        GATimSer.m (matlab code)


Brightness (magnitude) of a variable star over 600 consecutive nights
        Fourier analysis, autocorrelations.
        Star.txt


Measurements of heavy metals in soils and spinach away from a power plant
        Correlation coefficient, significance of correlations
        Spinach.csv


Measurements of Cu content in soils and cow's milk
    Correlation coefficient, the effects of outliers.
    SoilMilk.txt
(columns: Cu in soils (parts per million), Cu in milk (parts per billion))

Michelson's measurements of the speed of light
    ANOVA, box plot, t-test
    MichelsonExper.csv

Historical measurements of the speed of light
      Measurement errors, sources of uncertainty
      Speed of light measurements.xls


Lake Superior air temperatures (at 4 observation stations) (Explanations)
      Correlations, time series, Fourier, principal component analysis (PCA)
         LakeSuperiorAirTermperature.dat.txt
         Tsup.mat    (stations 1 and 4 with NaNs removed, plus an explicit timeline)

     SupTimSer.m (matlab code)
     
PCAsup.m (matlab code)

Lake Matano, Indonesia, water temperature vs. depth in consecutive days
       Instrumental errors, time series, data correction
         MatanoT.xls


Mauna Loa atmospheric CO2 measurements
       Time series, Fourier
         CO2series.txt


Body measurements data (weight, height, waist girth, abdomen girth) from this article.          Probability distributions, disciminant analysis, regression, maximum likelihood estimators
      
body_men.mat, body_women.mat

Normal body temperature dataset from this article
      Normal distribution, chi-square, confidence interval, hypothesis testing, KS test, ANOVA
      
normtemp.mat (columns: temperature, gender, heart rate)

Cigarette dataset (tar, nicotine, weight, carbon monoxide) from this article
      Regression
      cigarette.mat

OECD Economic Development dataset (per capita income, percentage of labor force in agriculture, percentage in industry, percentage in service occupations), found here
      Multiple regression
      oecd.mat

Fruitfly dataset from this article
       ANOVA
       fruitfly.mat

Netflix Prize movie popularity database and a million dollar statistical prediction contest
       Predictions, anova, clustering, etc.?

The time interval (in seconds) between successive impulses along a nerve fiber.
        
nerve-R.dat

The student grades in a class, in alphabetic groups that were graded by different TAs.
        
grades.mat

Artificial signal: three sine waves contaminated by noise and a linear trend.
        
xt.mat

Features of 2004 model cars.
        
cas-fixed04.csv


Images for digitization (imageproc.m).
        
KivuT.jpg, CoreImage.jpg 


Grainsize image for digitization (grains.m).
        
grainsize.tif

Temperature, pressure, O2, and turbidity from XRX logger in Lake Matano (XRX.m).
        
XRX.mat

Test 3.
        
Problem1.mat (txt version) 
           Problem2.mat  (txt version) 
           Problem4.mat  (txt version)