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Data Set 14: Clancy, Rowling, and Tolstoy Books

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STATDISK and text file names: CLWDS, CLCHR, CLFRE, CLFKG, RWWDS,
RWCHR, RWFRE, RWFKG, TLWDS, TLCHR, TLFRE, TLFKG.
Minitab: Worksheet names are CLANCY.MTW, ROWLING.MTW,
TOLSTOY.MTW.
Excel: Workbook names are CLANCY.XLS, ROWLING.XLS, TOLSTOY.XLS.
TI-83 Plus: App names are CLANCY, ROWLING, TOLSTOY, and the file names
are the same as for STATDISK and text files.

Tom Clancy: The Bear and the Dragon

Words/sentence Characters /word Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
15.0 4.8 58.2 8.8
9.8 4.5 73.4 5.4
8.1 4.6 73.1 5.0
13.5 4.5 64.4 7.6
24.0 4.0 72.7 9.0
9.8 4.0 89.2 3.2
33.0 4.6 43.9 12.0
9.4 4.5 76.3 4.9
8.3 4.4 76.4 4.6
11.3 4.4 78.9 5.0
11.4 4.3 69.4 6.4
12.4 4.3 72.9 6.1

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

Words/sentence Characters /word Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
15.7 4.1 85.3 5.2
9.0 4.2 84.3 3.7
16.3 4.2 79.5 6.1
14.5 4.4 82.5 4.9
9.7 4.3 80.2 4.4
7.4 4.2 84.6 3.2
14.0 4.5 79.2 5.6
16.1 4.5 70.9 6.9
13.9 4.3 78.6 5.7
12.5 4.0 86.2 4.1
17.2 4.4 74.0 6.7
11.5 4.3 83.7 4.4

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

Words/sentence Characters /word Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
20.6 4.3 69.4 8.6
28.0 4.5 64.2 9.8
12.0 4.5 71.4 6.1
11.5 4.5 71.6 5.9
17.4 4.5 68.5 7.7
19.7 4.8 51.9 10.9
20.3 4.3 72.2 8.2
17.8 4.2 74.4 7.2
22.1 4.7 52.8 11.0
31.4 4.3 58.4 11.5
18.3 4.4 65.4 8.4
11.7 4.5 73.6 5.9

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