wam {gmvalid}R Documentation

Women and Mathematics

Description

The data set describes the attitude of high school students toward mathematics achievement and related topics.

Usage

data(wam)

Format

A data frame with 1190 observations on the following 6 variables.

lecture
a factor with levels 1 (yes) 2 (no)
gender
a factor with levels 1 (female) 2 (male)
school
a factor with levels 1 (suburban) 2 (urban)
work
a factor with levels 1 (will need math) 2 (won't)
subject
a factor with levels 1 (science) 2 (arts)
plans
a factor with levels 1 (college) 2 (job)

Details

1190 high school students of eight schools in New Jersey responded to the questionnaire. The survey was performed by Lacampagne (1979).

Source

Fowlkes, EB, Freeny, AE and Landwehr, JM (1988) Evaluating logistic models for large contingency tables. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83:611-622.

References

Lacampagne, CB (1979) An Evaluation of the Women and Mathematics (WAM) Program and Associated Sex-Related Differences in the Teaching, Learning and Counseling of Mathematics. Ed.D. Thesis, Columbia University Teachers College, USA.

Examples

  data(wam)
  gm.analysis(wam, program="coco")

[Package gmvalid version 1.0 Index]