degreesawarded {statprograms} | R Documentation |
Degrees Awarded by Year
Description
This dataset contains the number of degrees awarded per year. It's based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics as retrieved by Steve Pierson. See http://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2014/07/28/categorization-of-statistics-degrees for more information.
Usage
degreesawarded
Format
A data.frame
with 4606 observations and 5 columns. The columns are defined as follows:
school
The college
program_category
The program type categorized as either "Statistics" or "Biostatistics"
degree_category
The degree categorized as either "Master" or "Doctorate"
year
The year the degrees were awarded
count
The number of degrees awarded
Source
"Statistics and Biostatistics Degree Data.", www.amstat.org/asa/education/Statistics-and-Biostatistics-Degree-Data.aspx
Examples
## Not run:
data(degreesawarded)
summary(degreesawarded)
# In wide format as provided by Steve Pierson
library(tidyr)
spread(degreesawarded, key = year, value = count)
## End(Not run)
[Package statprograms version 0.2.0 Index]