On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the MathPlacement data set which pertains to Math Placement. The MathPlacement data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the MathPlacement data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("MathPlacement"). This will load the data into a variable called MathPlacement. If R says the MathPlacement 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 MathPlacement R data set. The size of this file is about 136,681 bytes.

Math Placement

Description

Results from a Math Placement exam at a liberal arts college

Format

A dataset with 2696 observations on the following 16 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Student	Identification number for each student
Gender	0=Female, 1=Male
PSATM	PSAT score in MAth
SATM	SAT score in Math
ACTM	ACT Score in Math
Rank	Adjusted rank in HS class
Size	Number of students in HS class
GPAadj	Adjusted GPA
PlcmtScore	Score on math placement exam
Recommends	Recommended course: R0 R01 R1 R12 R2 R3 R4 R6 R8
Course	Actual course taken
Grade	Course grade
RecTaken	1=recommended course, 0=otherwise
TooHigh	1=took course above recommended, 0=otherwise
TooLow	1=took course below recommended, 0=otherwise
CourseSuccess	1=B or better grade, 0=grade below B

Details

Scores and course results for students taking a math placement exam at a college.

Source

Personal correspondence

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