Datafile Name: Transformations
Story Names: Transformations
Reference:
 A.C. Rosander, Applications of Quality Control to the Service Industries, ASQC
Quality Press, 1985, p. 114. (NBR, HRS, DAY, COST below)

B.D. Greenshields and F.M. Weida, Statistics with Applications to Highway Traffic
Analysis, Eno Foundation, 1978, 129-131. (DENS, MPH below) 

I.J. Good, letter to The American Statistician, June, 1971. (YDS, SEC below)

Authorization: free use
Description: Four sets of data are given in which the relationship between X and Y is not best described as linear in the original data.
Number of cases: varies
Variable Names:
  1. NBR: Order number of Liberty Ships built in Yard A in World War II
  2. HRS: Thousands of man-hours per ship
  3. DAY: Days 1 to 45
  4. COST: Cost per record transcribed
  5. DENS: Density (vehicles per mile) of traffic on a Connecticut freeway
  6. MPH: Average speed of vehicles on a Connecticut freeway
  7. YDS: Distance of track events
  8. SEC: World record time (1971) of event (100 yard record is based on a moving start , as recorded in the Guiness Book of Records, 1964. Other times are from the 1969 World Almanac.)
The Data:
NBR      HRS   DAY    COST   DENS   MPH     YDS     SEC

5	1094	1	26.3	20.4	38.8	100	7.8
10	894	2	21.8	106.2	10.6	220	20.0
25	647	3	19.5	141.3	7.7	440	44.8
30	659	4	17.9	121.7	8.5	880	105.1
75	529	5	15.4	130.5	8.6	1760	231.1
100	424	6	13.9	123.9	9.8	3520	499.8
125	376	7	14.5	29.5	31.8	5280	772.4
150	395	8	17.1	26.5	34.0	10560	1067.0
175	395	9	16.8	30.0	28.8	17600	2832.8
200	388	10	14.5	97.0	12.3	26400	4368.2
225	376	11	14.5	106.7	11.4	*	*
250	353	12	13.5	107.2	10.3	*	*
285	280	13	14.2	*	*	*	*
*	*	14	15.1	*	*	*	*
*	*	15	13.9	*	*	*	*
*	*	16	13.8	*	*	*	*
*	*	17	11.7	*	*	*	*
*	*	18	10.6	*	*	*	*
*	*	19	13.5	*	*	*	*
*	*	20	9.7	*	*	*	*
*	*	21	11.0	*	*	*	*
*	*	22	10.8	*	*	*	*
*	*	23	11.3	*	*	*	*
*	*	24	9.8	*	*	*	*
*	*	25	13.3	*	*	*	*
*	*	26	12.2	*	*	*	*
*	*	27	10.8	*	*	*	*
*	*	28	12.1	*	*	*	*
*	*	29	11.6	*	*	*	*
*	*	30	9.7	*	*	*	*
*	*	31	11.7	*	*	*	*
*	*	32	10.4	*	*	*	*
*	*	33	10.6	*	*	*	*
*	*	34	11.0	*	*	*	*
*	*	35	9.9	*	*	*	*
*	*	36	9.4	*	*	*	*
*	*	37	7.9	*	*	*	*
*	*	38	8.2	*	*	*	*
*	*	39	8.5	*	*	*	*
*	*	40	7.4	*	*	*	*
*	*	41	8.2	*	*	*	*
*	*	42	8.6	*	*	*	*
*	*	43	8.1	*	*	*	*
*	*	44	9.7	*	*	*	*
*	*	45	7.9	*	*	*	*