schooldata {FRB}R Documentation

School Data

Description

School Data, from Charnes et al. (1981). The aim is to explain scores on 3 different tests from 70 school sites by means of 5 explanatory variables.

Usage

data(schooldata)

Format

A data frame with 70 observations on the following 8 variables.

education
education level of mother as measured in terms of percentage of high school graduates among female parents
occupation
highest occupation of a family member according to a pre-arranged rating scale
visit
parental visits index representing the number of visits to the school site
counseling
parent counseling index calculated from data on time spent with child on school-related topics such as reading together, etc.
teacher
number of teachers at a given site
reading
total reading score as measured by the Metropolitan Achievement Test
mathematics
total mathematics score as measured by the Metropolitan Achievement Test
selfesteem
Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, intended as a measure of self-esteem

Source

Charnes et al. (1981)

References

Examples

data(schooldata)

[Package FRB version 1.4 Index]