firesetting: Fire-setting Among Teenagers

firesettingR Documentation

Fire-setting Among Teenagers

Description

Modifed from a dataset obtained in the course of a study on factors that are associated with fire-setting among at-risk youth. The data comes from national surveys of at-risk teenagers.

Format

A data frame with 975 observations on the following 6 variables.

age

Child's age in years.

sex

Sex of the child.

race

Child's race.

school.attitude

A measure of child's perceptions about school, combined from surveys given to child and to his/her parents. Higher scores indicate poorer attitudes.

academic

A measure of the child's academic performance. Higher scores indicate more academic problems.

adhd

Scaled scores from a test for AHDH. Higher scores indicates more problems with ADHD.

fires

Whether or not the child sets fires (0 = does not, 1 = does).

Source

Doctroal dissertation by Carrie H. Bowling, University of Kentucky, 2013.. Further details in ../doc/firesetting_phd_proposal.pdf.


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