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

Description

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

Usage

data(HS)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 301 observations on the following 34 variables.

id: case number of participants (note there are skips)
sex: sex of participants
grade: grade in school of the participants with levels Female Male
age: the age (ignoring months into the year) of the participants
month_since_birthday: the number of months since the last birthday
age_months: age in months
age_years: age in years and months combined (more fine grained measure of years)
school: the school the participant is from with levels Grant-White Pasteur
t1_visual_perception: scores on visual perception test, test 1
t2_cubes: scores on cubes test, test 2
t3_paper_form_board: scores on paper form board test, test 3
t4_lozenges: scores on lozenges test, test 4
t5_general_information: scores on general information test, test 5
t6_paragraph_comprehension: scores on paragraph comprehension test, test 6
t7_sentence: scores on sentence completion test, test 7
t8_word_classification: scores on word classification test, test 8
t9_word_meaning: scores on word meaning test, test 9
t10_addition: scores on add test, test 10
t11_code: scores on code test, test 11
t12_counting_groups_of_dots: scores on counting groups of dots test, test 12
t13_straight_and_curved_capitals: scores on straight and curved capitals test, test 13
t14_word_recognition: scores on word recognition test, test 14
t15_number_recognition: scores on number recognition test, test 15
t16_figure_recognition: scores on figure recognition test, test 16
t17_object_number: scores on object-number test, test 17
t18_number_figure: scores on number-figure test, test 18
t19_figure_word: scores on figure-word test, test 19
t20_deduction: scores on deduction test, test 20
t21_numerical_puzzles: scores on numerical puzzles test, test 21
t22_problem_reasoning: scores on problem reasoning test, test 22
t23_series_completion: scores on series completion test, test 23
t24_woody_mccall: scores on Woody-McCall mixed fundamentals, form I test, test 24
t25_paper_form_board_r: scores on additional paper form board test, test 25
t26_flags: scores on flags test, test 26

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, coming from Paster School and Grant-White School, who participated in Holzinger and Swineford's (1939) study. This study consists of 26 tests, which are used to measure the participants' spatial, verbal, mental speed, memory, and mathematical ability.

The spatial tests consist of t1_visual_perception, t2_cubes, t3_paper_form_board, t4_lozenges. Additional spatial tests are t25_paper_form_board_r (revised test 3) and t26_flags. t25_paper_form_board_r can (potentially) be used as a substitute for t3_paper_form_board. t26_flags is thought to be a possible substitute for t4_lozenges.

The verbal tests consist of t5_general_information, t6_paragraph_comprehension, t7_sentence, t8_word_classification, and t9_word_meaning.

The speed tests consist of t10_addition, t11_code, t12_counting_groups_of_dots, and t13_straight_and_curved_capitals.

The memory tests consist of t14_word_recognition, t15_number_recognition, t16_figure_recognition, t17_object_number, t18_number_figure, and t19_figure_word.

The mathematical-ability tests consist of t20_deduction, t21_numerical_puzzles, t22_problem_reasoning, t23_series_completion, and t24_woody_mccall.

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.

Examples

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# NOT RUN {
data(HS)
summary(HS)
# }

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