Exercises and Datasets for Biostats Course VHM 802/812 at AVC - Winter Semester 2025

Follow this link to additional datasets.

This page provides links to exercises:

• text (if not in textbook, .pdf to be opened by the Acrobat Reader),
• data file (.csv),
• solution file (.txt to be opened in Notepad or another editor/wordprocessor, or .pdf to be opened by the Acrobat Reader),
• Stata file (Stata do file to carry out the analysis using Stata),
• SAS file (SAS program file to carry out the analysis using SAS),
• R file (R program file to carry out the analysis using R),
• Minitab file (Minitab project file including outputs from Minitab analysis).

Textbook (GO) exercises:

Exercise	Data (*.csv)	Soln	Stata	R	SAS
Problem 3.2	*	*	*
Problem 3.5	*	*	*
Problem 4.2	*	*	*
Problem 4.3	*	*	*
Problem 5.1	*	*	*
Exercise 7.5		*
Problem 8.1	*	*	*
Problem 8.3		*
Problem 8.7	*	*	*
Problem 10.6	*	*	*
Exercise 13.5	*	*	*
Problem 13.4	*	*	*
Problem 13.8	*	*	*	*
Exercise 14.4	*	*	*
Problem 16.2		*
Problem 16.3	*	*	*		*
Problem 16.4	*	*	*	*	*
Problem 16.5	*	*	*

Additional exercises:

Exercise	Text	Data (*.csv)	Soln	Stata	R	SAS	Minitab
VER:14.1	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
VER:14.2	*	*	*	*	*		*
VER:14.3	*	*	*	*	*		*
VER:15	*	*	*	*	*
VER:16.1	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
VER:16.2	*	*	*	*	*	*
VER:16.3	*	*	*	*	*	*
VER:20	*	*	*	*
VER:22	*	*	*	*		*
add:2.1	*	*	*	*		*
add:2.2	*	*	*	*		*
add:2.3	*	*	*	*		*
add:2.4	*	*	*	*
add:2.7	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:2.7	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:2.8	*	*	*	*
add:2.9	*	*	*	*
add:2.11	*	*	*	*		*
add:2.12	*	*	*	*		*
add:4.1	*	*	*	*
add:4.3	*	*	*	*
add:4.4	*	*	*	*
add:6.1	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:7.1	*	*	*	*		*
add:7.2	*	*	*	*		*
add:7.3	*	*	*	*	*
add:7.4	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:7.5	*		*
add:7.6	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:7.7	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:9.1	*	*	*	*		*
add:9.2	*	*	*	*
add:10.1	*		*
add:10.2	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:10.3	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:10.4	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:10.5	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:10.6	*	*	*	*		*
add:10.7	*	*	*	*	*	*
add:10.8	*	*	*	*		*
add:10.11	*	*	*	*		*
add:10.12	*	*	*	*
add:13.1	*		*
add:13.2	*		*
add:13.3	*		*
add:13.4	*		*	*
add:13.5	*		*	*
exam2004:3	*	*	*	*
exam2008:1	*	*	*	*	*	*
exam2014:1	*	*	*	*
exam2014:2	*	*	*	*
exam2014:3	*	*	*	*

Additional datasets (Stata, Comma-separated file formats):

Name	.dta	.csv
amylase (GO Example 8.10)		*
ap2_intro (VER)	*	*
btb_episodes (VER)	*	*
bw5k (MER)	*	*
calf (VER)	*	*
carton (GO Example 11.2)		*
cat food (Minitab)		*
coleman (RC)	*	*
CPU page faults (GO Example 8.8)		*
daisy2 (VER)	*	*
daisy2red (VER)	*	*
dish detergent (GO Example 14.2)		*
floral (long format)		*
floral (wide format)		*
guinea_long		*
guinea_wide		*
labs		*
lowess	*	*
mangold		*
mealybugs (GO Example 13.1)		*
memory (GO Example 16.5)		*
mice	*	*
micegrp	*	*
milk yield (GO Example 13.12)		*
nocardia (VER)	*	*
nonstarter bacteria (GO Example 8.6)		*
pig_adg (VER)	*	*
pig breeding		*
rat (GO Exercise 3.1)		*
resin (GO Example 3.1)		*
reu_cfs (VER)	*	*
scc40_2level (VER)	*	*
simbin_clustcow (VER)	*	*
simbin_clustherd (VER)	*	*
simcont_clustcow (VER)	*	*
simcont_clustherd (VER)	*	*
unspecified (GO Example 9.2)		*
unspecified (GO Example 10.3)		*
wetland (GO Example 16.7)		*
xero (VER/MER problem)	*	*

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