Data on Stork Populations and Human Birth Rates

A dataset containing information on stork populations, human birth rates, and area size for 17 European countries, as described in Matthews (2000). This dataset is famously used to demonstrate spurious correlations (d-separation).

Usage

storks

Format

A data frame with 17 rows and 5 variables:

Country

Name of the country

Area

Area of the country in square kilometers

Storks

Number of breeding stork pairs

Humans

Human population size (in millions)

Birth

Human birth rate (1000s per year)

Source

Matthews, R. (2000). Storks deliver babies (p= 0.008). Teaching Statistics, 22(2), 36-38.