fakeAPI: Hypothetical (Fake) Data on Academic Performance

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Hypothetical (Fake) Data on Academic Performance

Description

This is a hypothetical universe of schools in a given territorial unit, patterned off the apipop data available in the survey package.

Usage

fakeAPI

Format

A data frame with 10000 observations on the following 8 variables.

uid

a numeric vector as a unique identifier for schools

schooltype

a character vector for school type. E = elementary school. M = middle school. H = high school

county

a character vector for the county, named after an Ohio State All-American. “County” incidence is weighted by how many All-American honors the Ohio State player had. It's my fake data. You make your own if you have a problem with it.

community

a character vector for the school's community, either rural, suburban, or urban.

api

a numeric vector vector an academic performance index for the school

meals

a numeric vector for the percentage of school students eligible for subsidized meals

colgrad

a numeric vector for the percentage of school parents with college degrees

fullqual

a numeric vector for the percentage of the school with teachers that are fully qualified

sbase

a numeric vector for some base differences between schools, patterned off the school type means for api00 in the apipop data.

cbase

a numeric vector for some base differences between counties, randomly drawn from a uniform distribution

e

a numeric vector for random errors

Details

These data were generated for a blog post on my website.

References

Miller, Steven V. 2020. "Some Parlor Tricks with Survey-Type Analyses in R." URL: https://svmiller.com/blog/2020/08/some-parlor-tricks-with-survey-type-analyses-in-r/

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