On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the FirstYearGPA data set which pertains to FirstYearGPA. The FirstYearGPA data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the FirstYearGPA data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("FirstYearGPA"). This will load the data into a variable called FirstYearGPA. If R says the FirstYearGPA 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 FirstYearGPA R data set. The size of this file is about 6,791 bytes.

FirstYearGPA

Description

Predicting first-year college GPA

Format

A dataset with 219 observations on the following 10 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

GPA	First-year college GPA on a 0.0-4.0 scale
HSGPA	High school GPA on a 0.0-4.0 scale
SATV	Verbal/critical reading SAT score
SATM	Math SAT score
Male	1= male, 0= female
HU	Number of credit hours earned in humanities courses in high school
SS	Number of credit hours earned in social science courses in high school
FirstGen	1= student is the first in her or his family to attend college, 0=otherwise
White	1= white students, 0= others
CollegeBound	1=attended a high school where >=50% students intended to go on to college, 0=otherwise

Details

The data in FirstYearGPA contains information from a sample of 219 first year students at a midwestern college that might be used to build a model to predict their first year GPA.

Source

A sample from a larger set of data collected in 1996 by a professor at this college.

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