sat: School expenditure and test scores from USA in 1994-95
In faraway: Functions and Datasets for Books by Julian Faraway

sat	R Documentation

School expenditure and test scores from USA in 1994-95

Description

The sat data frame has 50 rows and 7 columns. Data were collected to study the relationship between expenditures on public education and test results.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

expend: Current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools, 1994-95 (in thousands of dollars)
ratio: Average pupil/teacher ratio in public elementary and secondary schools, Fall 1994
salary: Estimated average annual salary of teachers in public elementary and secondary schools, 1994-95 (in thousands of dollars)
takers: Percentage of all eligible students taking the SAT, 1994-95
verbal: Average verbal SAT score, 1994-95
math: Average math SAT score, 1994-95
total: Average total score on the SAT, 1994-95