painters                package:MASS                R Documentation

The Painter's Data of de Piles

Description:

     The subjective assessment, on a 0 to 20 integer scale, of 54
     classical painters.  The painters were assessed on four
     characteristics: composition, drawing, colour and expression.  The
     data is due to the Eighteenth century art critic, de Piles.

Usage:

     data(painters)

Format:

     The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components
     are:

     'Composition' Composition score

     'Drawing' Drawing score

     'Colour' Colour score

     'Expression' Expression score

     'School' The school to which a painter belongs, as indicated by a
          factor level code as follows: '"A"': Renaissance; '"B"':
          Mannerist; '"C"': Seicento; '"D"': Venetian; '"E"': Lombard;
          '"F"': Sixteenth Century; '"G"': Seventeenth Century; '"H"':
          French.

Source:

     A. J. Weekes (1986) _A Genstat Primer._ Edward Arnold.

     M. Davenport and G. Studdert-Kennedy (1972) The statistical
     analysis of aesthetic judgement: an exploration. _Applied
     Statistics_ *21*,  324-333.

     I. T. Jolliffe (1986) _Principal Component Analysis._ Springer.

References:

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

