High School and Beyond - 1982

Description

Data from the 1982 study “High School and Beyond”.

Usage

data(Hsb82)

Format

A data frame with 7185 observations on students including the following 8 variables.

school

an ordered factor designating the school that the student attends.

minrty

a factor with levels

sx

a factor with levels Male and Female

ses

a numeric vector of socio-economic scores

mAch

a numeric vector of Mathematics achievement scores

meanses

a numeric vector of mean ses for the school

sector

a factor with levels Public and Catholic

cses

a numeric vector of centered ses values where the centering is with respect to the meanses for the school.

Details

Each row in this data frame contains the data for one student.

References

Raudenbush, Stephen and Bryk, Anthony (2002), Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods, Sage (chapter 4).

Examples

data(Hsb82)
summary(Hsb82)