reading: reading data
In jrnold/bps5data: Datasets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th ed.

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

1	data("reading")

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

Obs: Subject identification number
Sex: F=Female, M=Male
Lss: Median grade level of student's selection of "best for me to read" (based on 8 trials, each with 4 choices at grade levels 3, 5, 7, 9)
IQ: IQ test score
Read: Score on reading subtest of the Metropolitan Achievement Test
Est: Student's own estimate of his/her reading ability, scale 1 to 5, reversed from the paper so that 1 = lowest, 5 = highest

Table 1 from James T. Fleming, “The measurement of children's perception of difficulty in reading materials,” Research in the teaching of English, 1 (1967), pp. 136–156. The data describe 60 5th-graders randomly sampled from one elementary school. Some issues: relationship between measured and self-estimated reading ability; IQ and reading ability; sex differences; LSS nand measured reading ability (can children choose appropriate level material?)

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

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

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