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Keywords:
cigarettes; tar; nicotine
Categories:
science;
regression
Description:
Weight and tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content for 25 brands of domestic cigarettes.

There are 25 observations on five variables.

Variables:
Brand The cigarette brand
Tar The tar content (im mg)
Nicotine The nicotine content (in mg)
Weight The weight (in g)
CO The carbon monoixide (CO) content (in mg)
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
McIntyre, L. (1994). Using Cigarette Data for an Introduction to Multiple Regression Journal of Statistics Education, 2(1). Published electronically at http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v2n1/datasets.mcintyre.html
Notes:
Tar and Nicotine are correlated; there is one outlier.
References:
Mendenhall, W., and Sincich, T. (1992). Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences (3rd ed.). New York: Dellen Publishing Co.