R/dataMedical.R

In patriciamar/ShinyItemAnalysis: Test and Item Analysis via Shiny

#' Dichotomous dataset of admission test to medical school
#'
#' The `dataMedical` dataset consists of the responses of 2,392 subjects (750
#' males, 1,633 females and 9 subjects without gender specification) to
#' admission test to a medical school. It contains 100 items. A correct answer
#' is coded as `"1"` and incorrect answer as `"0"`. Missing answers were
#' evaluated as incorrect, i.e. `"0"`.
#'
#' @references Martinkova, P., & Drabinova, A. (2018). ShinyItemAnalysis for
#' teaching psychometrics and to enforce routine analysis of educational tests.
#' The R Journal, 10(2), 503--515, \doi{10.32614/RJ-2018-074}
#'
#' @source Stuka, C., Vejrazka, M., Martinkova, P., Komenda, M., & Stepanek, L. (2016).
#' The use of test and item analysis for improvement of tests. Workshop held at
#' conference MEFANET, 2016, Brno, Czech Republic.
#'
#' @keywords datasets
#'
#' @seealso [dataMedicaltest()], [dataMedicalkey()], [dataMedicalgraded()]
#'
#' @format A `dataMedical` is a `data.frame` consisting of 2,392 observations on
#' the following 102 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{X}{The first 100 columns represent dichotomously scored items of the
#' test. }
#' \item{gender}{Variable describing gender; values `"0"` and `"1"` refer to
#' males and females. }
#' \item{StudySuccess}{Criterion variable; value `"1"` means that student
#' studies standardly, `"0"` otherwise (e.g., leaving or interrupting studies). }
#' }
"dataMedical"