An investigator is interested in understanding the relationship, if any, between the analytical skills of young gifted children and the following variables: father's IQ, mother's IQ, age in month when the child first said "mummy" or "daddy", age in month when the child first counted to 10 successfully, average number of hours per week the child's mother or father reads to the child, average number of hours per week the child watched an educational program on TV during the past three months, average number of hours per week the child watched cartoons on TV during the past three months. The analytical skills are evaluated using a standard testing procedure, and the score on this test is used as the response variable.
Format
A data frame with 36 observations and 8 variables.
- score
Score in test of analytical skills.
- fatheriq
Father's IQ.
- motheriq
Mother's IQ.
- speak
Age in months when the child first said "mummy" or "daddy".
- count
Age in months when the child first counted to 10 successfully.
- read
Average number of hours per week the child's mother or father reads to the child.
- edutv
Average number of hours per week the child watched an educational program on TV during the past three months.
- cartoons
Average number of hours per week the child watched cartoons on TV during the past three months.
Source
Graybill, F.A. & Iyer, H.K., (1994) Regression Analysis: Concepts and Applications, Duxbury, p. 511-6.
Details
Data were collected from schools in a large city on a set of thirty-six children who were identified as gifted children soon after they reached the age of four.
Examples
gifted
#> # A tibble: 36 × 8
#> score fatheriq motheriq speak count read edutv cartoons
#> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 159 115 117 18 26 1.9 3 2
#> 2 164 117 113 20 37 2.5 1.75 3.25
#> 3 154 115 118 20 32 2.2 2.75 2.5
#> 4 157 113 131 12 24 1.7 2.75 2.25
#> 5 156 110 109 17 34 2.2 2.25 2.5
#> 6 150 113 109 13 28 1.9 1.25 3.75
#> 7 155 118 119 19 24 1.8 2 3
#> 8 161 117 120 18 32 2.3 2.25 2.5
#> 9 163 111 128 22 28 2.1 1 4
#> 10 162 122 120 18 27 2.1 2.25 2.75
#> # ℹ 26 more rows