quine                  package:MASS                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The 'quine' data frame has 146 rows and 5 columns. Children from
     Walgett, New South Wales, Australia, were classified by Culture,
     Age, Sex and Learner status and the number of days absent from
     school in a particular school year was recorded.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(quine)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     '_E_t_h' Ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, ('"A"' or '"N"').

     '_S_e_x' Sex factor: ('"F"' or '"M"').

     '_A_g_e' Age group: Primary ('"F0"'), or forms '"F1,"' '"F2"' or
          '"F3"'.

     '_L_r_n' Learner status factor: Average or Slow learner, ('"AL"' or
          '"SL"').

     '_D_a_y_s' Days absent from school in the year.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     S. Quine, quoted in Aitkin, M. (1978) The analysis of unbalanced
     cross classifications (with discussion). _Journal of the Royal
     Statistical Society series A_ *141*, 195-223.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) _Modern Applied
     Statistics with S._ Fourth edition.  Springer.

