qdapDictionaries (version 1.0.1)

NAMES_SEX: First Names and Predictive Gender (U.S.)

Description

A truncated version of the NAMES dataset used for predicting.

Usage

data(NAMES_SEX)

format

A data frame with 5163 rows and 3 variables

Details

• name. A first name.
• gender2. Gender of the combined male/female list with "B" in place of overlapping (M/F) names.
• pred.sex. Predicted gender of the names with B's ingender2replaced with the gender that had a higherper.freq.

References

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_files.html