S+PBSdata

This library contains data for "The Practice of Business Statistics",
by Moore, McCabe, Duckworth and Sclove, 2003, W. H. Freeman.

See INSTALL.txt for instructions on installing and loading this library.

This library is intended for use with the S+Resample library, see
	www.insightful.com/downloads/libraries
	www.insightful.com/Hesterberg/bootstrap

For additional information, see:
	PBSdata.pdf		manual for this library
	doc/exercises.ssc	script file to run chapter 18 exercises
	PBSdata.chm		online help system, overview of the datasets
You can load the online help system inside S-PLUS using
	help(PBSdata)
or load the other documents from the PBSdata menu (at right on the main
S-PLUS menu bar when the library is loaded).

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The datasets in this library include:
	CaseXX.Y	Case studies, e.g. Case18.1 for chapter 18 study 1
	TableXX.Y	Tables, e.g. Table18.1 for chapter 18 table 1
	ExampleXX.Y	Examples, e.g. Example 18.1
	ExerciseXX.Y	Exercises, e.g. Exercise18.1
	CaseStudyExerciseXX.Y Case study exercises, e.g. CaseStudyExercise2.1
	FigureXX.Y	Figures, e.g. Figure1.5
as well as named datasets for case studies, including:
	Verizon, ILEC, CLEC, Seattle, Seattle2001, Seattle2002, Baseball,
	cheese, coffee, concept, csdata, dandruff, homes, hourly, individuals,
	majors, plants1, plants2, reading, runners, salary.


The
	data/
folder contains text versions of the data sets.  In that folder is
	readdata.ssc
containing S-PLUS code to read the data into S-PLUS.

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Please send your comments to:
	bootstrap-beta@insightful.com
or contact me at
	Tim Hesterberg <timh@insightful.com> 206-802-2319

This work has been supported by
NSF SBIR DMI-0078706 "Bootstrap Tilting Inference and Large Data Sets"

This library we developed as part of the development of chapter 18,
"Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests",
written by Tim Hesterberg, Shaun Monaghan, David S. Moore, 
Ashley Clipson, and Rachel Epstein.
The PBS book was written by Moore, McCabe, Duckworth, and Sclove.
Both are published by W. H. Freeman.
