admissions {dslabs}

Gender bias among graduate school admissions to UC Berkeley.

Description

The admission data for six majors for the fall of 1973; often used as an example of Simpson's paradox

Usage

admissions

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

• major. The major or university department.

• gender. Men or women.

• admitted. Percent of students admitted.

• applicants. Total number of applicants.

Source

PJ Bickel, EA Hammel, and JW O'Connell. Science (1975)

Examples

admissions