quine:
Absenteeism from School in Rural New South Wales
Description
The quine
data frame has 146 rows and 5 columns.
Children from Walgett, New South Wales, Australia, were classified by
Culture, Age, Sex and Learner status and the number of days absent from
school in a particular school year was recorded.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
Eth
-
ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, (
"A"
or "N"
).
Sex
-
sex: factor with levels (
"F"
or "M"
).
Age
-
age group: Primary (
"F0"
), or forms "F1,"
"F2"
or "F3"
.
Lrn
-
learner status: factor with levels Average or Slow learner, (
"AL"
or
"SL"
).
Days
-
days absent from school in the year.
Source
S. Quine, quoted in Aitkin, M. (1978) The analysis of unbalanced cross
classifications (with discussion).
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A 141, 195--223.References
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002)
Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.