

quine(MASS)                                  R Documentation

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     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.

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s_:

     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.

_F_o_r_m_a_t_:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

_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.

