concept: concept data

Description Usage Format Details Source References See Also

Description

Dataset concept The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th edition.

Usage

1
data("concept")

Format

\Sexpr[results=rd]{bps5data:::doc_data("concept", variables = FALSE)}
Obs

Subject identification number

GPA

Grade point average

IQ

IQ test score

Age

in years

Sex

1=Female, 2=Male

SC

Overall score on the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale

C1

cluster score for behavior

C2

cluster score for school status

C3

culster score for physical appearance

C4

cluster score for anxiety

C5

cluster score for popularity

C6

cluster score for happiness

Details

Data from Darlene Gordon, The Relationships Among Acade mic Self-Concept, Academic Achievement, and Persistence with Self-Attribution, Study Habits, and Perceived School Environment, Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1997. The data describe 78 seventh-grade students in a rural midwestern school. The research concerned the relationship between the students' “self-concept” and their academic performance.

Source

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/bps5e/content/cat_110/bps5e_large_datasets.zip

References

Moore, David S. 2009. The Basic Practice of Statistics. 5th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman.

See Also

Other large datasets from BPS 5th ed.: bliss; call; class; education; floridavote; foodsafety; income; literacy; newt; reading; verizon


jrnold/bps5data documentation built on May 19, 2019, 11:55 p.m.