cemspc {prefmod}R Documentation

Data (paired comparisons with undecided): CEMS (Community of European management schools)

Description

A survey of 303 students was carried out to examine the student's preferences of 6 universities (London, Paris, Milano, St.Gallen, Barcelona and Stockholm). The first 15 variables of the 17 indicate the preferences of the subjects. For a given comparison the reponses are coded by 1 if the first university was preferred, 2 if the second university was preferred and 0 if no decision was made. The variable ENG characterises the knowledge of English and the variable SEX characterises the gender.

Usage

data(cemspc)

Format

A data frame with 303 observations on the following 17 variables.

V1
comparison of London to Paris
V2
comparison of London to Milano
V3
comparison of Paris to Milano
V4
comparison of London to St.Gallen
V5
comparison of Paris to St.Gallen
V6
comparison of Milano to St.Gallen
V7
comparison of London to Barcelona
V8
comparison of Paris to Barcelona
V9
comparison of Milano to Barcelona
V10
comparison of St.Gallen to Barcelona
V11
comparison of London to Stockholm
V12
comparison of Paris to Stockholm
V13
comparison of Milano to Stockholm
V14
comparison of St.Gallen to Stockholm
V15
comparison of Barcelona to Stockholm
ENG
Knowledge of English : 1= good, 2= poor
SEX
Gender : 1= female, 2= male

References

R. Dittrich, R.Hatzinger and W.Katzenbeisser: Modelling the effect of subject-specific covariates in paired comparison studies with an application to university rankings. Applied Statistics, Vol. 47 (1998), Part 4

Examples

data(cemspc)
par(mfrow=c(4,4))
for (i in 1:15) barplot(table(cemspc[,i]))
par(mfrow=c(1,1))

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