R2MLwiN (version 0.8-6)

gcsemv1: Pupils' marks from GCSE exams (UK, 1989).

Description

GCSE exam results, taken from 73 schools in England, consisting of 1905 pupils.

Format

A data frame with 1905 observations on the following variables:

school

School identification (level 2 unit).

student

Student identification (level 1 unit).

female

Gender: a factor with levels Female and Male.

agemths

Age in months.

written

Score on the written component.

csework

Score on the coursework component.

cons

Constant (= 1).

Details

The gcsemv1 dataset is one of the sample datasets provided with the multilevel-modelling software package MLwiN (Rasbash et al., 2009); for further details see Rasbash et al. (2012).

See Also

See mlmRev package for an alternative format of the same dataset, with fewer variables.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(gcsemv1, package = "R2MLwiN")

(mymodel <- runMLwiN(c(written, csework) ~ 1 + female + (1 | school) + (1 | student), 
  D = "Multivariate Normal", estoptions = list(EstM = 1), data = gcsemv1))

# }