placekick: NFL placekicking data

In uvastatlab/uvastatlab: Miscellaneous functions for the UVA Library StatLab

NFL placekicking data

Description

Data on the results of placekicks in the NFL. This is a good data set for demonstrating logistic regression.

Usage

placekick

Format

A data frame with 1425 observations and 9 variables:

week

week of the season

distance

distance of the placekick in yards

change

does result of kick change who's leading? 0 = no, 1 = yes

elap30

number of minutes remaining before end of half; overtime placekicks receive a 0

PAT

point after attempt? 0 = no, 1 = yes

type

dome = 0, outdoor = 1

field

turf = 0, grass = 1

wind

no wind = 0, windy = 1; windy is a wind stronger than 15 MPH

good

was kick successful? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Source

http://www.chrisbilder.com/categorical/1stEdition/programs_and_data.html

References

Bilder CR and Loughin TM. (2015) Analysis of Categorical Data with R. CRC Press.

Examples

m <- glm(good ~ distance, data = placekick, family = binomial)
exp(confint(m))

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