graduate {parmsurvfit}

Data on time until graduation for 1000 college students.

Description

A dataset that contains the time (in years) that 1000 students (472 males and 528 females) took to graduate (obtain a bachelor’s degree) from college (measured from the time they entered a post-secondary institution, i.e. either a junior college or four year degree granting institution). The Gender column contains the gender of each student (1 = male, 2 = female), and Censor contains the values of the censoring status variable.

Usage

graduate

Format

A data frame with 1000 rows and 3 variables:

years

years until graduation

censor

censoring status indicator variable (0 = censored event time, 1 = complete event time)

gender

a dichotomous variable identifying gender (1 = male, 2 = female)

Source

National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) from 1988-2002