schools: 8 schools example

schoolsR Documentation

8 schools example

Description

A classic example of aggregate level continuous data in Bayesian hierarchical modelling. This dataframe contains a column of estimated treatment effects of an SAT prep program implemented in 8 different schools in the US, and a column of estimated standard errors.

Usage

schools

Format

An object of class data.frame with 8 rows and 3 columns.

Details

See Gelman et al (1995), Chapter 5, for context and applied example.

References

Gelman, Andrew, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, and Donald B. Rubin. Bayesian Data Analysis. Taylor & Francis, 1995.


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