eight_schools: Eight schools data

In hunansona/ed4bhm: Empirical Determinacy for Bayesian Hierarchical Models

Eight schools data

Description

Estimated effect of a coaching program on SAT-V scores y and its standard error (σ) in eight schools.

Usage

data(eight_schools)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 5 variables.

school

character string, labels of the schools

y

numeric, the estimated coaching effects on eight schools

sigma

numeric, standard error of the coaching effect of each school

prec

numeric, precision of the coaching effect of each school

schooln

integer, labels of the schools

Details

To quantify the effect of a coaching program on SAT-V (Scholastic Aptitude Test-Verbal) scores in eight high schools, data from a randomized study were pre-analyzed and supplied for a Bayesian meta-analysis.

Source

A. Gelman, J.B. Carlin, H.S. Stern, D.B. Dunson, A. Vehtari, and D.B. Rubin. Bayesian Data Analysis. 3rd Edition. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2014.

References

A. Gelman and J. Hill. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.

A. Vehtari, A. Gelman, D. Simpson, B. Carpenter, and P. Burkner. Rank-normalization, folding, and localization: An improved R_hat for assessing convergence of MCMC (with Discussion). Bayesian Analysis, 16(2):667718, 2021.

Examples

data(eight_schools)
str(eight_schools)

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