gpa1: gpa1

gpa1R Documentation

gpa1

Description

Wooldridge Source: Christopher Lemmon, a former MSU undergraduate, collected these data from a survey he took of MSU students in Fall 1994. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('gpa1')

Format

A data.frame with 141 observations on 29 variables:

  • age: in years

  • soph: =1 if sophomore

  • junior: =1 if junior

  • senior: =1 if senior

  • senior5: =1 if fifth year senior

  • male: =1 if male

  • campus: =1 if live on campus

  • business: =1 if business major

  • engineer: =1 if engineering major

  • colGPA: MSU GPA

  • hsGPA: high school GPA

  • ACT: 'achievement' score

  • job19: =1 if job <= 19 hours

  • job20: =1 if job >= 20 hours

  • drive: =1 if drive to campus

  • bike: =1 if bicycle to campus

  • walk: =1 if walk to campus

  • voluntr: =1 if do volunteer work

  • PC: =1 of pers computer at sch

  • greek: =1 if fraternity or sorority

  • car: =1 if own car

  • siblings: =1 if have siblings

  • bgfriend: =1 if boy- or girlfriend

  • clubs: =1 if belong to MSU club

  • skipped: avg lectures missed per week

  • alcohol: avg # days per week drink alc.

  • gradMI: =1 if Michigan high school

  • fathcoll: =1 if father college grad

  • mothcoll: =1 if mother college grad

Notes

This is a nice example of how students can obtain an original data set by focusing locally and carefully composing a survey.

Used in Text: pages 75, 77, 81, 129-130, 160, 232, 262, 295-296, 300-301

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(gpa1)

wooldridge documentation built on May 3, 2023, 5:06 p.m.