phd: PhD students in the EU
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PhD students in the EU
Description
PhD students in Europe based on the standard classification system splitted
by different kind of studies (given as percentages).
Format
A data set on 32 compositions and 11 variables.
Details
Due to unknown reasons the rowSums of the percentages is not always 100.
country country of origin (German)
countryEN country of origin (English)
country2 country of origin, 2-digits
total total phd students (in 1.000)
male male phd students (in 1.000)
female total phd students (in 1.000)
technical phd students in natural and technical sciences
socio-economic-low phd students in social sciences, economic sciences and law sciences
human phd students in human sciences including teaching
health phd students in health and life sciences
agriculture phd students in agriculture
Source
Eurostat
References
Hron, K. and Templ, M. and Filzmoser, P. (2010) Imputation of missing values for compositional data using classical and robust methods. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol 54 (12), pages 3095-3107.
Examples
data(phd)
str(phd)
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PhD students in the EU
Description
PhD students in Europe based on the standard classification system splitted by different kind of studies (given as percentages).
Format
A data set on 32 compositions and 11 variables.
Details
Due to unknown reasons the rowSums of the percentages is not always 100.
countrycountry of origin (German)
countryENcountry of origin (English)
country2country of origin, 2-digits
totaltotal phd students (in 1.000)
malemale phd students (in 1.000)
femaletotal phd students (in 1.000)
technicalphd students in natural and technical sciences
socio-economic-lowphd students in social sciences, economic sciences and law sciences
humanphd students in human sciences including teaching
healthphd students in health and life sciences
agriculturephd students in agriculture
Source
Eurostat
References
Hron, K. and Templ, M. and Filzmoser, P. (2010) Imputation of missing values for compositional data using classical and robust methods. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol 54 (12), pages 3095-3107.
Examples
data(phd)
str(phd)
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