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Datasets

Description	R	S-Plus (.sdd)	Excel	ASCII	contents()
		Stata (.dta)
Meningitis dataset
abm.html	abm.sav	abm.dta	abm.xls	NA	Cabm.html
Cardiac catheterization diagnostic data
acath.html	acath.sav	acath.dta	acath.xls.zip	NA	Cacath.html
CRASH-2
crash2.html	crash2.rda	NA	NA	NA	Ccrash2.html
WHO ARI Multicentre Study of clinical signs and etiologic agents
Description	ari.sav ari_other.sav	NA	NA	ari.zip	ari.html
Rosner's estriol data
NA	birth.estriol.sav	NA	NA	birth_estriol.csv	Cbirth.estriol.html
Boston neighborhood housing prices data
boston.html	boston.sav	boston.sdd	NA	NA	Cboston.html
Cervical Dystonia longitudinal dataset
cdystonia.html	cdystonia.sav	cdystonia.dta	NA	NA	Ccdystonia.html
U.S. counties and 1992 presidential election dataset
counties.html	counties.sav	counties.sdd	countiesxls.zip	NA	Ccounties.html
Diabetes data
diabetes.html	diabetes.sav	diabetes.sdd	diabetes.xls	diabetes.csv	Cdiabetes.html
Duchenne muscular dystrophy dataset
dmd.html	dmd.sav	dmd.sdd	NA	dmd.csv	Cdmd.html
Esophageal pH Data
Article	esopH.rda	esopH.dta			CesopH.html
Article	esopH2.rda				CesopH2.html
German Breast Cancer Data
GermanBreastCa	gbsg.sav	NA	NA	gbsg_ba_ca.dat	Cgbsg.html
Hypertension data from the Dominican Republic
DominicanHTN.html	DominicanHTN.sav	NA	DominicanHTN.xls	NA	CDominicanHTN.html
Rosner's FEV data
FEV.html	FEV.sav	FEV.sdd	NA	FEV.csv	CFEV.html
Rosner's hospital data
NA	hospital.sav	NA	NA	NA	Chospital.html
Rat vaginal cancer data
kprats.html	kprats.sav	kprats.sdd	NA	NA	Ckprats.html
Rosner's lead data
NA	lead.sav lead.rda (no labels)	lead.dta	NA	NA	Clead.html
NHANES glycohemoglobin data
NhanesGh	nhgh.rda	nhgh.dta	NA	nhgh.tsv	nhgh.html
1996 Olympics medal counts
olympics.1996.html	olympics.1996.sav	olympics.1996.sdd	NA	olympics.1996.asc	Colympics.1996.html
Mayo Clinic primary biliary cirrhosis data
pbc.html	pbc.sav	pbc.dta	pbc.xls	NA	Cpbc.html
Plasma Retinol/Beta-Carotene dataset
plasma.html	plasma.sav	plasma.sdd	NA	NA	Cplasma.html
Byar & Greene prostate cancer data
prostate.html	prostate.sav	prostate.dta	prostate.xls	NA	Cprostate.html
Right heart catheterization dataset
rhc.html	rhc.sav	rhc.sdd	NA	rhc.csv	Crhc.html
40-observation sex-age-response data
sex.age.response.html	sex.age.response.sav	sex.age.response.dta	NA	NA	Csex.age.response.html
Stress Echocardiography Data
stressEcho.html	stressEcho.sav	stressEcho.sdd	NA	stressEcho.csv	CstressEcho.html
SUPPORT study datasets
Description	support.sav	support.dta	support.xls	support.tsv	Csupport.html
	support2.sav	support2.sdd	NA	support2csv.zip	Csupport2.html
Data for Titanic passengers
titanic.html	titanic.sav	titanic.sdd	NA	titanic.txt	Ctitanic.html
NA	titanic2.sav	titanic2.sdd	NA	NA	Ctitanic2.html
NA	titanic3.sav	titanic3.dta	titanic3.xls	titanic3.csv	Ctitanic3.html
VA lung cancer data
valung.html	valung.sav	valung.sdd	NA	valung.csv	Cvalung.html
Very low birth weight infant
vlbw.html	vlbw.sav	vlbw.sdd	NA	vlbw.zip	Cvlbw.html
Data sets from Dupont, W. D. (2002). Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers
Bernard et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	1.3.2.Sepsis.csv	NA
Bernard et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	1.4.11.Sepsis.csv	NA
Parl et al. (1989)	NA	NA	NA	10.7.ERpolymorphism.csv	NA
Lang et al. (1995)	NA	NA	NA	11.2.Isoproterenol.csv	NA
Lang et al. (1995)	NA	NA	NA	11.2.Long.Isoproterenol.csv	NA
(no ref)	NA	NA	NA	11.AreaUnderCurve.csv	NA
Brent et al. (1999)	NA	NA	NA	2.12.Poisson.csv	NA
Gross et al. (1999)	NA	NA	NA	2.18.Funding.csv	NA
Levy (1999)	NA	NA	NA	2.20.Framingham.csv	NA
Eisenhofer et al. (1999)	NA	NA	NA	2.ex.vonHippelLindau.csv	NA
Gross et al. (1999)	NA	NA	NA	3.ex.Funding.csv	NA
Bernard et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	4.11.Sepsis.csv	NA
Bernard et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	4.18.Sepsis.csv	NA
Breslow & Day (1980)	NA	NA	NA	4.21.EsophagealCa.csv	NA
Bernard et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	4.ex.Sepsis.csv	NA
Breslow & Day (1980)	NA	NA	NA	5.5.EsophagealCa.csv	NA
Scholer et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	5.ex.InjuryDeath.csv	NA
O'Donnell et al. (2000)	NA	NA	NA	6.9.Hemorrhage.csv	NA
Dupont et al. (1985)	NA	NA	NA	6.ex.Breast.csv	NA
Levy (1999)	NA	NA	NA	8.12.Framingham.csv	NA
Levy (1999)	NA	NA	NA	8.7.Framingham.csv	NA
(no ref)	NA	NA	NA	8.8.2.Person-Years.csv	NA
(no ref)	NA	NA	NA	8.8.2.Survival.csv	NA
Scholer et al. (1997)	NA	NA	NA	8.ex.InjuryDeath.csv	NA
(no ref)	NA	NA	NA	11.ex.Sepsis.csv	NA

load(url('https://hbiostat.org/data/repo/foo.sav')) # replace 'foo' with dataset name
ls() # find name of data frame just loaded (here assumed 'foo')
write.table(d, file='foo.csv', sep=',', col.names=NA) 

Other Datasets Available from the Web

• Data Sources on the Web
• Open Data Repositories
• Data science teaching datasets
• CRASH datasets (for CRASH-2 dataset see above)
• US military adult anthropometric data
• DryadLab
• International Stroke Trial dataset
• Physionet ICU data
• Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials Database - contains high-quality data with time to event and ordinal scale outcomes. The data may be useful for assessing differential treatment effect (often called HTE - hetogeneous treatment effect) for Riluzole. The database was created by a non-profit organization, Prize4Life
• Clinical Study Data Request - a wealth of data from clinical trails done by the pharmaceutical industry
• GapMinder
• Data and Story Library from Carnegie Mellon University - This is a treasure trove of datasets. The data are found inside HTML documents, so you may wish to click on File & Save as with your browser to save the data into a plain text file. Once inside an editor, click on the data documentation and copy it to another file. Edit the resulting .txt file to leave only the data. Many of the datasets delimit the columns of data using tabs. R and S-Plus will readily import such data.
• Australasian Data and Story Library, containing a large number of interesting datasets, many pertaining to Australia
• Other datasets from the StatLib Repository at Carnegie Mellon University. The Plasma_Retinol dataset is available as an annotated R save file or an S-Plus transport format dataset using the getHdata function in the Hmisc package
• Datasets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository
• Datasets from the Dartmouth Chance data site
• Datasets from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Data from the Centers for Disease Control
• Data from the NIH. You have to request the data, but the site is immediately valuable as a source of data collection forms used in clinical (especially cardiovascular) studies.
• Data from NHLBI
• Data from the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center of the University of Virginia. See especially the City and County Data Books
• Data from the Peace Science Society, Penn State University (war casualties, etc.)
• Data from the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
• Mike Dowling's Interactive Table of World Nations, containing gross domestic product and several descriptor variables for all countries in the world.
• Data from the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network Dataset Guide
• Data from Arizona Elementary School Districts
• Statistical Society of Canada's archived case studies
• Datasets for research use from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health
• A wonderful set of links to various dataset sources from Key Curriculum Press
• Links to other dataset repositories and tips on surfing the web for data, by Robin Lock, Mathematics Dept., St. Lawrence University
• Datasets from Exploring Data from Education Queensland
• Data from Statistical Science Web
• Datasets from Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Repeated Measurements by Charles S. Davis
• Datasets from the UCLA Department of Statistics
• Bradstreet Datasets from Early (and Late) Phases of Drug Research by Thomas E Bradstreet
• Datasets from Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis by Swayne, Cook, Buja, Hofmann, Lang
• Datasets from IBM's Many Eyes visualization project
• Swivel
• Datasets from The Statistical Sleuth
• Name Voyager