absenteeism
Absenteeism from school in New South Wales
Description
Researchers interested in the relationship between absenteeism from school and certain demographic characteristics of children collected data from 146 randomly sampled students in rural New South Wales, Australia, in a particular school year.
Usage
absenteeism
Format
A data frame with 146 observations on the following 5 variables.
- eth
Ethnicity, representing Aboriginal (
A) or not (N).- sex
Gender.
- age
Age bucket.
- lrn
Learner status, with average learner (
AL) and slow learner (SL).- days
Number of days absent.
Source
Venables WN, Ripley BD. 2002. Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. New York: Springer.
Data can also be found in the R MASS package under the data set name
quine.