degreesawarded: Degrees Awarded by Year
In statprograms: Graduate Statistics Program Datasets

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This dataset contains the number of degrees awarded per year. It's based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics as retrieved by Steve Pierson. See http://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2014/07/28/categorization-of-statistics-degrees for more information.

1	degreesawarded

A data.frame with 4147 observations and 5 columns. The columns are defined as follows:

school: The college
program_category: The program type categorized as either "Statistics" or "Biostatistics"
degree_category: The degree categorized as either "Master" or "Doctorate"
year: The year the degrees were awarded
count: The number of degrees awarded

Pierson, Steve. Largest U.S. Doctorate Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics. 25 July 2016. http://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2014/02/09/largest-doctorate-programs-in-statistics-and-biostatistics and Pierson, Steve. Largest U.S. Master's Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics. 25 July 2016. http://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2014/02/09/largest-graduate-programs-in-statistics

## Not run: 
data(degreesawarded)
summary(degreesawarded)

# In wide format as provided by Steve Pierson
library(tidyr)
spread(degreesawarded, key = year, value = count)

## End(Not run)