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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_First_Ladies_of_the_United_States_by_longevity
I can see where the definition of first lady might only be reserved for women who participated in that role and does not include those who were dead before they had their shot. However, I think what makes them interesting for inclusion is whether they are discarded as outliers or included in history as important in the data set.
Why include Martha? Thomas Jefferson was so devastated he never remarried, although historians believe he may have had children with Sally Hemmings -- there are DNA matches for African Americans as possible descendants.
An outlier is a data point that is not consistent with the bulk of the data -- unusually high or low, and these women were at the extremes -- this data set comes from women alive in 2002.
Hannah Hoes van Buren could also be considered an outlier having died at the age of 36, but she never held that status either -- or Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt at age 22.
Between these three, Hannah, Alice, and Martha, there really are no others close to their young ages, and on the other end, the only women who come close to Bess is
Ladybird Johnson at 94.
The choice of data seems to be open here, and the idea is to look at anomalies, such as the lifespan of women who served as first lady. I believe that these women present a more interesting story and the effects on the men who became president. Here is what the Wikipedia offers about Alice Roosevelt:
"While he made some oblique references to Alice in the months after her passing, Roosevelt never spoke of her publicly again. He refused to have her name mentioned in his presence. When asked about her mother by Alice's daughter and namesake, she was referred to Roosevelt's sister, Ana/Bye/Bamie for information and learned details of her mother only from her aunt. So final was this decision to try to put Alice's loss out of his life, that she is not even mentioned by name in his autobiography.
The Roosevelts had one daughter:
* Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980). According to a number of historians, Roosevelt's need to leave behind or suppress his experiences with his first wife were a source of deep resentment by his daughter. She was unable to get him to talk about her mother in any meaningful way. Her rebellious life finds some explanation in this sad aspect of her relationship with her father.
In the immediate aftermath of his wife's death, Theodore turned the care of their newly-born infant daughter to his elder sister Anna, also known as Bamie, and embarked on a journey of personal discovery to his ranch in the Badlands of North Dakota. From this interlude Roosevelt would emerge a renewed man and would go on to the Presidency of the United States in 1901.
Alice Hathaway Roosevelt was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, next to her mother-in-law."
The beauty of this simple analysis is that it allows for the integration of the qualitative that begins to investigate the stories of the families and those who lived on in positions of great privilege and power. The qualitative begins to breath life and intrigue into these women who might only be outliers in number but not in their longer effect on the presidency and their legacies -- perhaps more so than those who lived and chose china patterns, and perhaps less than those who sought influence and change with their position like Eleanor who became an advocate for civil rights.
Yes, much more complex tests could be run, and we could look at average life expectancy and use it as a meditating factor over time by grouping in eras -- industrial eras were and agricultural times were much harder for women--especially in regard to child birth. However, these women were often privileged and had a greater opportunity for success at birth than most women du to wealth and access to doctors.
I do believe however, that looking at quartiles will show us the extreme points.
The points you make are well-founded however and perhaps I will run a regression.
How might we collaborate to combine a display?
I think I did FIND it. If you really insist on a physical presence in the midst of nowhere, isn't that existentially contradictory?
If you would like, you can press the "View Larger Map" below the book recommendation and go to street level-- pushing the white arrow for the extent of your Google maps virtual road trip.
Highly recommended
The spirit of this completion was the idea that Nowhere Kansas is a figurative literary expression - like BF Egypt. The idea that is exists moves it beyond the subjective which is what someones opinion might entail.
I was thinking about doing a video journey into my vacuum cleaner -- but it has been done.
But please do enjoy the google roadtrip by pressing the white arrows on street level and this haiku
I love it mama
dog food makes for good earrings
mayonnaise ketchup
I think an addendum to using the plunger might also be useful -- no one wants a walk in to find a stale bowl.
that is an awesome badge -- I am honored
That is too much SAS, a MEAN statement and perhaps Deviant. I have no need for your .csv. These are generic micro-soft threats you pose of little significance. My P-value has never been higher and you are making a TYPE I error. Come back to the mean ye outlier.
the task asked for identification of an outlier on an interesting data set and to do a statistical analysis and display. What I presented were presidential wives and first ladies who were outliers as a mixed-method presentation.
Thus young and old are the anomalies
We are trying to find a way to put this in one document to make it more organized and sensical for the description. Thanks for the encouragement!
I will not bring my son to that kind of jeopardy this early in his training. He has just received his light saber, and not even baked his own.
When I discovered that my credit card was being declined, a blank feeling crawled over my face. Maybe the 32 inch , full color Infinitron was not in the cards. I hung my head, and began to turn find the exit,, when a hand came out of the silence of my dejection and said, "maybe there is another way".
They took me in the back and made me sign a contract in red ink, and then reached down with a pair of wicked looking tweezers. . . andt hey took my shadow. They took my shadow and placed it in an envelope in a manila folder; a manila folder that was quickly filed away. I protested and they compromised; they took out a gray department store bag that was wrinkled white in some places and pulled out the shadow of a pigeon and stapled it to me. At least I can watch the Price is Right.