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Ten Projects in Applied Statistics

Part of the Springer Series in Statistics Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14275-8

ISBN: 978-3-031-14274-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 4, 2023

1 - 10 of 21 Chapters

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Chapter 1Rat Surgery

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 1 –14

[The first project is a medical research problem that was brought to the statistical consulting program in the Department of Statistics by George Huang in the early 1990s. At the time, Dr Huang was a resident in the department of Surgery. He was studying the effect of high-pressure oxygen...
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Chapter 2Chain Saws

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 15 –23

[The second project is a small-scale classically designed experiment that is concerned with comparing efficiencies of chain saws. Duplicate saws of three brands are available for comparison. Logs of three species, pine, spruce and larch, are available as experimental material. Half of the logs...
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Chapter 3Fruit Flies

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 25 –42

[The third project takes a look at the data from an experiment on mating preferences of fruit flies. The goal of that experiment was to understand whether assortative mating is induced by diet. In other words, do flies raised on one diet mate preferentially with flies raised on on the same diet...
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Chapter 4Growth Curves

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 43 –53

[This project deals with growth curves for arabidopsis plants of two strains. Over a period of 30 days, the height of each plant was recorded every few days. The challenge is to formulate a statistical model for the temporal trajectories of each plant, taking into account various obvious facts.]
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Chapter 5Louse Evolution

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 55 –79

[In a 2019 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the U.S., Villa et al. make the following claim:]
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Chapter 6Time Series I

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 81 –101

[This chapter is a largely empirical investigation of various aspects of the central England daily temperature series from Jan 1 1772 to Dec 31 2019, i.e., 90 580 days over 248 years.]
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Chapter 7Time Series II

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 103 –116

[This chapter continues the empirical analysis of the central England daily temperature series using Fourier techniques indexed by frequencies. The first step is to compute the Fourier transform and to plot the spectrum, which is the absolute Fourier coefficient plotted against frequency. After...
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Chapter 8Out of Africa

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 117 –131

[This project was prompted by the publication in 2011 of a paper by Q.D. Atkinson, on the geographic patterns of linguistic diversity in Africa and elsewhere.]
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Chapter 9Environmental Projects

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 133 –143

[This chapter discusses two environmental projects, one concerned with understanding the effects of atmospheric warming on plants, and one concerned with the effects of plant species on the rate of infection in bumblebees.]
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Chapter 10Fulmar Fitness

McCullagh, Peter

Pages: 145 –158

[The project in this chapter is the analysis of the breeding record of birds at the Eynhallow colony in the Orkney islands. Fulmars have a relatively long adolescence, and commence breeding when they are around 3–7 years. Adults are monogamous, they form long-term pair bonds, and breeding pairs...

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