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Data for Teaching Statistics to
Environmental Science Students
Dale Easley
University of Dubuque
email me at
deasley@dbq.edu
A useful text for guiding use of Excel:
Statistical Analysis: Microsoft Excel 2010
by Conrad Carlberg, available
here
Introductory lecture:
here.
Session 2
and
data.
Session 3
and
data
and
more data
Sessions 4 and 5
and
data
Session 6
and
data
Final Excel
data
I developed this figure while working on a court case in order to help explain how analysis of multiple contaminants could be used to help distinguish between sources of the contamination .
Distinguishing between contaminant sources.
Data sets:
Ag/Botany: Cash price for Iowa corn
Ag/Botany: Iris measurements
Ag/Botany: Tomato measurements
Chemistry: NaCl data in two areas
Chemistry: Affects of Vitamin C on tooth growth
Chemistry: Sediment contaminant data, Mississippi River, Pools 11 and 12
Climate: Mauna Loa CO2 data
Climate: Extent of Arctic sea ice
Climate: Global sea level
Climate: Snow accumulations in Greenland from Ice Core, 1738-2002
Economics: Dubuque Real Estate Prices
Economics: Example salaries
Energy: Historical gasoline prices
Energy: Historical natural gas prices
Fire: Total Fires, 1960-2012
Fire: Fire Causes
Fire: Large Fires
Fire: 2012 Fires by State
Fish:Spokane River fish lead data
Fish: Fish data from Finland
Fish: Mercury in lake fish in Florida
Geology: Old Faithful eruption data
Geology: Earthquake data near Fiji
Historical: Deaths on the Titanic
Hydrology: Mississippi River at Clinton discharge data in USGS format (not Excel)
Hydrology: Mississippi River at Bellevue discharge data in USGS format (not Excel)
Weather: Lake Michigan Buoy data, 2012 (raw data, not Excel)
Weather: Iowa historic monthly weather data
Wildlife: Deer Deaths
Other: Class doughnut data
Other: Class standard deviation worksheet
Other: Freethrows
Videos and Other Resources:
Excel
Great series on Excel basics
Creating a pivot table in Excel
Statistics
Hans Rosling and Statistics
Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
Book site:
: Click on the tab for
downloads
here
for spreadsheets that accompany
Statistical Analysis,
cited at the top of the page.
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