case0102: Sex Discrimination in Employment

In Sleuth2: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

Description

The data are the beginning salaries for all 32 male and all 61 female skilled, entry–level clerical employees hired by a bank between 1969 and 1977.

Usage

case0102

Format

A data frame with 93 observations on the following 2 variables.

Salary

starting salaries (in US$)

Sex

sex of the clerical employee

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Roberts, H.V. (1979). Harris Trust and Savings Bank: An Analysis of Employee Compensation, Report 7946, Center for Mathematical Studies in Business and Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

See Also

case1202

Examples

str(case0102)
boxplot(Salary~Sex, case0102)

Example output

'data.frame':	93 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ Salary: num  3900 4020 4290 4380 4380 4380 4380 4380 4440 4500 ...
 $ Sex   : Factor w/ 2 levels "Female","Male": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

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