On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Day1Survey data set which pertains to Day1Survey. The Day1Survey data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the Day1Survey data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Day1Survey"). This will load the data into a variable called Day1Survey. If R says the Day1Survey data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Day1Survey R data set. The size of this file is about 2,328 bytes.

Day1Survey

Description

Data from a first day class survey

Format

A dataset with 43 observations on the following 13 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Section	Section: 1 or 2
Class	Year in school: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, or Senior
Sex	F=female or M=male
Distance	Distance (in miles) to get to campus
Height	Height (in inches)
Handedness	Left, Right, or Ambidextrous
Coins	Value of coins student has (in class)
WhiteString	Estimated length of a white string (in inches)
BlackString	Estimated length of a black string (in inches)
Reading	Expected amount of reading during the semester (pages/week)
TV	Hours of TV watched per week
Pulse	Resting pulse rate (beats per minute)
Texting	Number of text messages in past 24 hours

Details

An instructor at a small liberal arts college distributed the a data survey on the first day of class. The data for two different sections of the course are given in this dataset.

Source

Student survey in an introductory statistics class.

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.