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Arbuthnot: Arbuthnot's data on male and female birth ratios in London from 1629-1710.

Armada: La Felicisima Armada

Bowley: Bowley's data on values of British and Irish trade, 1855-1899

Breslau: Halley's Breslau Life Table

Cavendish: Cavendish's Determinations of the Density of the Earth

ChestSizes: Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen

Cholera: William Farr's Data on Cholera in London, 1849

CholeraDeaths1849: Daily Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhaea in England, 1849

CushnyPeebles CushnyPeeblesN: Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives

Dactyl: Edgeworth's counts of dactyls in Virgil's Aeneid

DrinksWages: Elderton and Pearson's (1910) data on drinking and wages

EdgeworthDeaths: Edgeworth's Data on Death Rates in British Counties

Fingerprints: Waite's data on Patterns in Fingerprints

Galton: Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children

GaltonFamilies: Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children, by child

Guerry: Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of France"

HalleyLifeTable: Halley's Life Table

HistData-package HistData: Data sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization

Jevons: W. Stanley Jevons' data on numerical discrimination

Langren1644 Langren.all: van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome

Macdonell MacdonellDF: Macdonell's Data on Height and Finger Length of Criminals, used by Gosset (1908)

Mayer: Mayer's Data on the Libration of the Moon.

Michelson MichelsonSets: Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light

Minard.troops Minard.cities Minard.temp: Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow

Nightingale: Florence Nightingale's data on deaths from various causes in the Crimean War

OldMaps: Latitudes and Longitudes of 39 Points in 11 Old Maps

PearsonLee: Pearson and Lee's data on the heights of parents and children classified by gender

PolioTrials: Polio Field Trials Data

Pollen: Pollen Data Challenge

Prostitutes: Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris

Pyx: Trial of the Pyx

Quarrels: Statistics of Deadly Quarrels

Saturn: Laplace's Saturn data.

Snow.deaths Snow.pumps Snow.streets Snow.polygons Snow.dates: John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak

SnowMap() Splot() Sdeaths() Spumps() Sstreets() Sscale() Spolygons() Sdensity(): Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London

Virginis Virginis.interp: John F. W. Herschel's Data on the Orbit of the Twin Stars \(\gamma\) Virginis

Wheat Wheat.monarchs: Playfair's Data on Wages and the Price of Wheat

Yeast YeastD.mat: Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts

ZeaMays: Darwin's Heights of Cross- and Self-fertilized Zea May Pairs