9.7 Data
?swiss: Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888 (see here and Mosteller and Tukey 1977) (cognitive load)- Let’s take a step back…
| Fertility | Agriculture | Examination | Examination_cat |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80.2 | 17.0 | 15 | lower |
| 83.1 | 45.1 | 6 | lowest |
| 92.5 | 39.7 | 5 | lowest |
| 85.8 | 36.5 | 12 | lowest |
| 76.9 | 43.5 | 17 | higher |
- Dataset is a matrix with columns = variables and rows = units
- Data consist of numbers (Fertility etc.) and letters (Region)
References
Mosteller, Frederick, and John Wilder Tukey. 1977. “Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics.” Addison-Wesley Series in Behavioral Science: Quantitative Methods.