quine                  package:MASS                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     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.

