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  1. Hartford County population data from 1990 census. Breast cancer data from Rice [Chapter 7, Problems]. Problem set in tex and postscript form. (Warning: Problem 3 is wrong as stated.) [Some solutions]
    For those of you who will be using Splus:
    Population data for the 29 towns that make up Hartford County, CT. Click on HTML to view in nicely formatted version, and click on TABLE to view in a form well suited to read.table or scan in Splus. [HTML] [TABLE]. The first row of the TABLE gives the names of the variables, with fields: The fields of the table are separated by commas. Read into Splus using
    $population <- read.table("file-name",header=T, sep=",")
    
    where you should replace file-name by the name of the file in which you save the TABLE as text.

  2. Problem set in tex and postscript form. [Solutions]
  3. Problem set in tex and postscript form.

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