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.