Examples

Program 7D: Analysis of Variance with Data Screening
The problem in this example is to screen income (in US dollars) for a one-way analysis of variance. Income is grouped by level of education—high school dropout, high school graduate, some college, and college graduate. Community survey data shown in BMDP Manual Output 7D.2 are used—income is rescaled to match statistics found on the web in 2008.
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Example 2: Bivariate (Scatter) Plots
Is the correlation between two quantitative measures appropriate? That is, check distributions, identify outliers, assess the need for a transformation, etc.
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Correspondence Analysis in BMDP

Suicide Method by Age Group and Sex. From a 1985 study on more than 52,000 suicides in West Germany, data were recorded in a 34 x 8 frequency table—34 sex-age categories and 8 suicide methods. In such a large table it is hard by scanning differences and similarities in row (or column) percentages to understand the relationship between sex, age, and suicide.
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Cluster Analysis in BMDP

Ten nominally similar perfumes for use in a disinfectant were assessed as follow:
Ten small measured samples of the disinfectant, differing only in respect of the perfume, were placed in ten identical containers. A panel of 30 judges were asked to smell the samples and to group them according to whether or not any difference in smell could be detected
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