StudentSurvey {Lock5Data}

Student Survey Data

Description

Data from a survey of students in introductory statistics courses

Format

A data frame with 362 observations on the following 17 variables.

Year

Year in school

Sex

code F=female or M=male

Smoke

Smoker? No or Yes

Award

Preferred award: Academy, Nobel, or Olympic

HigherSAT

Which SAT is higher? Math or Verbal

Exercise

Hours of exercise per week

TV

Hours of TV viewing per week

Height

Height (in inches)

Weight

Weight (in pounds)

Siblings

Number of siblings

BirthOrder

Birth order, 1=oldest

VerbalSAT

Verbal SAT score

MathSAT

Math SAT scorer

SAT

Combined Verbal + Math SAT

GPA

College grade point average

Pulse

Pulse rate (beats per minute)

Piercings

Number of body piercings

Details

Data from an in-class survey given to introductory statistics students over several years. Note the Sex variable was labeled as Gender in earlier versions of this dataset. We acknowledge that this binary dichotomization is not a complete or inclusive representation of reality.

Source

In-class student survey