HS.data: Complete Data Set of Holzinger and Swineford's (1939) Study

Description

The complete data set of scores of 301 subjects in 26 tests in Holzinger and Swineford's (1939) study.

Usage

data(HS.data)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 301 observations on the following 32 variables.

Source

Holzinger, K. J. and Swineford, F. A. (1939). A study in factor analysis: The stability of a bi-factor solution. Supplementary Education Monographs, 48. University of Chicago.

Details

Holzinger and Swineford (1939) data is widely cited, but generally only the Grant-White School data is used. The present dataset contains the complete data of Holzinger and Swineford (1939). A total number of 301 pupils from Paster School and Grant-White School participated in Holzinger and Swineford's (1939) study. This study consists of 26 tests, which are used to measure the subjects' spatial, verbal, mental speed, memory, and mathematical ability.

The spatial tests consist of visual, cubes, paper, flags, paperrev, and flagssub. The test 25, paper form board test (paperrev), can be used as a subsitute for test 3, paper form board test (paper). The test 26, flags test (flagssub), is a possible substitute for test 4, lozenges test (flags). The verbal tests consist of general, paragrap, sentence, wordc, and wordm.

The speed tests consist of addition, code, counting, and straight.

The memory tests consist of wordr, numberr, figurer, object, numberf, and figurew.

The mathematical-ability tests consist of deduct, numeric, problemr, series, and arithmet.

References

Holzinger, K. J. and Swineford, F. A. (1939). A study in factor analysis: The stability of a bi-factor solution. Supplementary Education Monographs, 48. University of Chicago.