Population of U.S. Cities SUMMARY: The bigcity data frame has 49 rows and 2 columns. The city data frame has 10 rows and 2 columns. The measurements are the population (in 1000's) of 49 U.S. cities in 1920 and 1930. The 49 cities are a random sample taken from the 196 largest cities in 1920. The city data frame consists of the first 10 observations in bigcity. DATA DESCRIPTION: This data frame contains the following columns: u: The 1920 population. x: The 1930 population. SOURCE: The data were obtained from Cochran, W.G. (1977) Sampling Techniques. Third edition. John Wiley OTHER REFERENCES: Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.