lawstat (version 2.4.1)

zuni: The Zuni data from the law case: Zuni Public School v. United States Department of Education

Description

Number of students and available revenue per pupil in each school district in New Mexico

Usage

zuni

format

A multivariate time series with 89 observations on 4 variables: District, Revenue and Mem (number of students). The object is of class "mts".

source

Gastwirth, J. L. (2006). A Sixty Million Dollar Statistical Issue Arising in the Interpretation and Calculation of a Measure of Relative Disparity Mandated by Law: Zuni Public School District 89 v. U.S. Department of Education. (working paper, Department of Statistics, George Washington University).

Details

The Zuni data come from a law case "The Zuni Public School District No. 89, Gallup-McKinley County Public School District No. 1, Petitioners v. United States Department of Education" concerning whether the revenue per pupil data satisfied a standard for "equal" expenditures per-pupil in a state. This classification determines whether most of the federal money given to the state under the law goes to the state or to the local school districts.

Examples

data(zuni)
hist(zuni[,"Revenue"], br=40, col="blue", main="The Zuni Revenue")