Researchers interested in the relationship between absenteeism from school and certain demographic characteristics of children collected data from 146 randomly sampled students in rural New South Wales, Australia, in a particular school year.
Format
A data frame with 146 observations on the following 5 variables.
- eth
Ethnicity, representing Aboriginal (
A) or not (N).- sex
Gender.
- age
Age bucket.
- lrn
Learner status, with average learner (
AL) and slow learner (SL).- days
Number of days absent.
Source
Venables WN, Ripley BD. 2002. Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. New York: Springer.
Data can also be found in the R MASS package under the dataset name
quine.
Examples
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(absenteeism, aes(x = eth, y = days)) +
geom_boxplot() +
coord_flip()
