A Useful data sets

This Appendix gives details of some useful, real data sets, and links to download them. Data files flagged with this icon are about Australia:

• Details of Australian Prime Ministers, including the age at which they took office.
• The ages at which Australian Prime Ministers and American Presidents took office.
• Weights of McDonalds fries.
• Diameter of pizzas from two competing Australian pizza stores.
• Details of babies born in one 24-hr period in a Brisbane hospital.
• The lifetime of batteries.
• The eruption times and waiting times of eruptions of a geyser
• The NHANES data set, with 10,000 observations on 76 variables.
• House prices in Melbourne, with 34,857 observations on 18 variables.
• Annual electric car sales in Australia
• Monthly production of chocolate confectionery in Australia
• Quarterly production of chocolate confectionery in Australia

We also list some other sources of real data.