quine                  package:MASS                  R Documentation

Absenteeism from School in Rural New South Wales

Description:

     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.

Usage:

     data(quine)

Format:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

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

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

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

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

     'Days' Days absent from school in the year.

Source:

     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.

References:

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

