SAT: SAT data with expenditures

In UsingR: Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

SAT data with expenditures

Description

This dataset contains variables that address the relationship between public school expenditures and academic performance, as measured by the SAT.

Usage

data(SAT)

Format

A data frame with variables state, expend (expenditure per pupil), ratio (pupil/teacher ratio); salary (average teacher salary; percentage of SAT takers; verbal (verbal score); math (math score); total (average total).

Source

The data came from http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/sat.txt

References

This data comes from http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.guber.cfm. It is also included in the mosaic package and commented on at http://sas-and-r.blogspot.com/2012/02/example-920-visualizing-simpsons.html. The variables are described at http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/sat.txt.

The author references the original source: The variables in this dataset, all aggregated to the state level, were extracted from the 1997 Digest of Education Statistics, an annual publication of the U.S. Department of Education. Data from a number of different tables were downloaded from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website (Available at: http://nces01.ed.gov/pubs/digest97/index.html) and merged into a single data file.

Examples

data(SAT)

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