university1993 {SIN} | R Documentation |
Druzdzel and Glymour's University Data 1993
Description
Data from a study by the U.S. News and World Report magazine with
the purpose of college ranking. Druzdzel and Glymour choose 8 variables
and after removing some universities give a correlation matrix for 159
universities. The 8 variables are:
- apgra
- average percentage of graduation, i.e., the
fraction of the total number of entering students who make it
through the graduation,
- rejr
- rejection rate, i.e., the fraction of the
applicants who are given an admission offer,
- tstsc
- average standardized test scores of the incoming
students,
- top10
- class standing of the incoming freshman, which
is a fraction of the incoming freshmen who were in top 10% of
their high school graduating class,
- pacc
- percentage of those students who accept the
university's offer from among those who are offered admission,
- spend
- total educational and general expenses per
student, which is the sum spent on the instruction, student
services, and academic support, including libraries and computing
services,
- strat
- student-faculty ratio,
- salar
- average facutly salary.
Usage
data(university1993)
Format
A list providing a summary of the data. The list contains:
university1993$means | : | the mean vector, |
university1993$stddev | : | the vector of standard deviations, |
university1993$corr | : | the correlation matrix, and |
university1993$n | : | the sample size.
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Source
Druzdzel, M.J. \& Glymour, C. (1999) In Computation, Causation,
and Discovery. (Ed. Glymour, C. \& Cooper, G.F.). Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The MIT Press. (See Ch. 19).
Examples
data(university1993)
university1993$means
university1993$stddev
university1993$corr
university1993$n
[Package
SIN version 0.4
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