blauduncan: Blau and Duncan's data on the American occupational structure

In SIN: A SINful Approach to Selection of Gaussian Graphical Markov Models

Description

Sample of 20,700 subjects for which 5 variables are measured:

V	:	Father's educational attainment,
X	:	Father's occupational status,
U	:	educational attainment,
W	:	Status of first-job,
Y	:	Status of occupation in 1962.

Usage

data(blauduncan)

Format

A list providing a summary of the data. The list contains:

blauduncan$means	:	the mean vector,
blauduncan$stddev	:	the vector of standard deviations,
blauduncan$corr	:	the correlation matrix, and
blauduncan$n	:	the sample size.

Source

Blau, P. \& Duncan, O. (1967) The American Occupational Structure. New York: Wiley. (See p.13 and p.169).

References

Spirtes, P., Glymour, C. \& Scheines, R. (2000) Causation, Prediction, and Search. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. (See pp.105-108).

Examples

data(blauduncan)
blauduncan$means
blauduncan$stddev
blauduncan$corr
blauduncan$n

Example output

Y W U X V 
0 0 0 0 0 
Y W U X V 
1 1 1 1 1 
      Y     W     U     X     V
Y 1.000 0.541 0.596 0.405 0.322
W 0.541 1.000 0.538 0.417 0.332
U 0.596 0.538 1.000 0.438 0.453
X 0.405 0.417 0.438 1.000 0.516
V 0.322 0.332 0.453 0.516 1.000
[1] 20700

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