NAME: NASCAR Driver Results TYPE: Observational SIZE: 34884 Observations, 10 Variables DESCRIPTION: Driver results for all NASCAR races between 1975 1nd 2003, inclusive. The dataset constitutes all participants in each of 898 races, and includes their start/finish postions, prize winnings, car make and laps completed. SOURCE: NASCAR official website (www.nascar.com). VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS: Columns Variable Comments 1-3 Series Race 1,2,…,898 6-9 Year 1975,…,2003 12-13 Race/Year Format F2.0 16-17 Finishing Position Format F2.0 (1=Winner) 20-21 Starting Position Format F2.0 24-26 Laps Completed Format F3.0 29-35 Winnings Format F7.0 (In dollars) 38-39 Number of cars in race Format F2.0 42-50 Car Make String of Length 9 53-82 Driver String of Length 30 STORY BEHIND DATA: Author found that the sport provided unique opportunities of introducing statistical methods in classroom due to the structure of its competition (set of drivers competing in open competition in repeated races in only a few brands of automobiles). PEDAGOGICAL NOTES: These data permit statistics students to explore a wide range of descriptive and data management applications. Also methods for analyzing categorical and ordinal outcomes may be applied to the data. SUBMITTED BY: Larry Winner Department of Statistics University of Florida P.O. Box 118545 Gainesville, FL 32611 USA Winner@stat.ufl.edu