survey                 package:MASS                 R Documentation

Student Survey Data

Description:

     This data frame contains the responses of 237 Statistics I
     students at the University of Adelaide to a number of questions.

Usage:

     data(survey)

Format:

     The components of the data frame are:

     'Sex' The sex of the student. (Factor with levels '"Male"' and
          '"Female"'.)

     'Wr.Hnd' The span (distance from tip of thumb to tip of little
          finger of spread hand) of writing hand, in centimetres.

     'NW.Hnd' Span of non-writing hand

     'W.Hnd' Writing hand of student. (Factor, with levels '"Left"' and
          '"Right"'.)

     'Fold' "Fold your arms! Which is on top" (Factor, with levels '"R
          on L"', '"L on R"', '"Neither"'.)

     'Pulse' Pulse rate of student (beats per minute.)

     'Clap' 'Clap your hands! Which hand is on top?' (Factor, with
          levels '"Right"', '"Left"', '"Neither"'.)

     'Exer' How often the student exercises. (Factor, with levels
          '"Freq"' (frequently), '"Some"', "'None"')

     'Smoke' How much the student smokes. (Factor, levels '"Heavy"',
          '"Regul"' (regularly), '"Occas"' (occasionally), '"Never"'.)

     'Height' The height of the student, in centimetres.

     'M.I' Indicates whether the student expressed height in imperial
          (feet/inches) or metric (centimetres/metres) units. (Factor,
          levels '"Metric"', '"Imperial"'.)

     'Age' Age of the student, in years.

References:

     Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) _Modern Applied
     Statistics with S-PLUS._ Third Edition. Springer.

