R/natsal.R

In gitrman/itns: Datasets from the book Introduction to the New Statistics

#'Impact of Outliers - Sexual Partners
#'
#'An example of independent groups data with outliers used in Chapters 16 of the
#'book \emph{Introduction to the New Statistics}.
#'
#'This is a subset of data from a British survey of sexual behaviours and
#'attitudes that can be used to illustrate the impact of outliers on estimates
#'of central tendency. The participants in this subset were all 21 years of age.
#'The independent variable is sex and the dependent variable is the lifetime
#'number of sexual partners.
#'
#'@format A data frame with 95 rows and 2 variables:
#'\describe{
#'  \item{sex}{\emph{female} or \emph{male}}
#'  \item{partners}{Number of sexual partners}
#'}
#'
#'@source
#'National Centre for Social Research et al. (2005), \emph{National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles II,
#'2000-2001 [computer file]}. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], August 2005. SN: 5223.
#'
#'@references Cumming, G., & Calin-Jageman, R. (2017).
#'  \emph{Introduction to the New Statistics}. New York; Routledge.
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