Resources for Chapter 7:
Analyzing proportions
Chapter links
You can read more about the setting of Problem 5 about the cancer of the cast and crew of John’s Wayne’s movie here.
For Problem 21, a description of the toast experiment is here
The youtube video for Problem 27 describes the experiment.
The catfish who hunt pigeons (Problem 29) can be seen in this video.
Learn R by example
We used R to analyze all examples in chapter 79. We’ve put the code here so that you can too.
Data
Download a .zip file with all the data for chapter 7 in .csv format here.
Download a .zip file with all data sets in the book here.
All data sets and their sources are listed individually below.
Disclaimer: Most data sets used in the book are grabbed from graphs and tables in the original publications, and the values may not be exact. Contact the original authors for the raw data.
Data for examples
Example 7.2. Sex and the X chromosome
Wang, P. J., J. R. McCarrey, F. Yang, and D. C. Page. 2001. Nature Genetics 27: 422–426.
Jensen, M. P. et al. 2018. Current Biology 28:154-159.
Data for problem sets
Marzoli, D., and L. Tommasi. 2009. Naturwissenschaften 96:1099–1106.
Devlin, H. 2009. The Times. www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article1967384.ece link www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article1967384.ece. Accessed August 4, 2019.
Adams, C. 1984. Straight Dope. www.straightdope.com/columns/read/374/did-john-wayne-die-of-cancer-caused-by-a-radioactive-movie-set. link Accessed August 4, 2019.
Jenkins, A. J. 2001. Forensic Science International 121:189–193.
Abd-El-Al, A. M., A. M. Bayoumy, and E. A. Abou Salem. 1997. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology 27:183-95.
Elgar, M.A., and D.R. Nash. 1988. Animal Behaviour 36:1511-1517.
10. Range shifts with climate change
Parmesan, C., et al. 1999. Nature 399: 579–583.
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Young, D. C., and E. M. Hade. 2004. Journal of the American Medical Association 292: 3012–3016.
Farrell, B. D., D. E. Dussord, and C. Mitter. 1991. The American Naturalist 138: 881–900.
Winder, B., et al. 2002. Applied Ergonomics 33: 433–438
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 2005. www.expertguide.com.au/news/article.aspx?ID=273 link. Accessed Aug 4, 2019.
The Sum. 2001. The Sum www.counton.org/thesum/issue-07/issue-07-page-05.htm link Accessed Aug 4, 2019.
Coello, C. A., et al. 2005. Journal of Hospital Infection 60: 93–103.
Russell, A. F., and B. J. Hatchwell. 2001. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 268, 2169-2174.
Bohannon, J., R. Goldstein, and A. Herschkowitsch. 2009. American Association of Wine Economics Working Paper #36.
Valtonen, H., et al. 2006. Journal of Affective Disorders 90:201–207.
Rober, M. 2012. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA&list=SP45865A763BAB32CA&index=5 link. Accessed August 4, 2019.
Cucherousset, J., et al. 2012. PLoS ONE 7:e50840.
Johns, J. W., et al. 2017. Worldwide hemisphere‐dependent lean in Cook pines. Ecology* 98: 2482-2484.
Sugiura, S., and T. Sato. 2018. Biology Letters 14: 20170647.
33. Alzheimer in neurosurgeons
Lollis, S. S., et al. 2010. Journal of Neurosurgery 113: 474-478.