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There are 18 data sets that accompany the text book. These data sets can be found when you enter StatCrunch from the course. Here is a list of the data sets and the variables found in those data sets. If there is no listing of variables then they are easily identified in the data set.

Data Set 1: Health Exam Results (both male and female)
AGE is in years, HT is height (inches), WT is weight (pounds), WAIST is circumference (cm), PULSE is pulse rate (beats per minute), SYS is systolic blood pressure (mmHg), DIAS is diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), CHOL is cholesterol (mg), BMI is body mass index, LEG is upper leg length (cm), ELBOW is elbow breadth (cm), WRIST is wrist breadth (cm), and ARM is arm circumference (cm). Data are from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Data Set 2: Body Temperatures (in degrees Fahrenheit) of Healthy Adults
Data provided by Dr. Steven Wasserman, Dr. Philip Mackowiak, and Dr. Myron Levine of the University of Maryland.
Data Set 3: Cigarette Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide
All measurements are in milligrams per cigarette, and all cigarettes are 100 mm long, filtered, and not menthol or light types. Data are from the Federal Trade Commission.
Data Set 4: Passive and Active Smoke
All values are measured levels of serum cotinine (in ng/ml), a metabolite of nicotine.
(When nicotine is absorbed by the body, cotinine is produced.) Data are from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics,
Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Data Set 5: Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Animated Children’s Movies
Movie lengths are in minutes, tobacco use times are in seconds, and alcohol use times are in seconds. The data are based on “Tobacco and Alcohol Use in G-Rated Children’s Animated Films,” by Goldstein, Sobel, and Newman, Journal of the American Medical Association,