On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the discrim data set which pertains to discrim. The discrim data set is found in the wooldridge R package. You can load the discrim data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("discrim"). This will load the data into a variable called discrim. If R says the discrim data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("wooldridge") 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 discrim R data set. The size of this file is about 139,843 bytes.

discrim

Description

Data loads lazily. Type data(discrim) into the console.

Usage

data(discrim)

Format

A data.frame with 410 rows and 37 variables:

• psoda. price of medium soda, 1st wave

• pfries. price of small fries, 1st wave

• pentree. price entree (burger or chicken), 1st wave

• wagest. starting wage, 1st wave

• nmgrs. number of managers, 1st wave

• nregs. number of registers, 1st wave

• hrsopen. hours open, 1st wave

• emp. number of employees, 1st wave

• psoda2. price of medium soday, 2nd wave

• pfries2. price of small fries, 2nd wave

• pentree2. price entree, 2nd wave

• wagest2. starting wage, 2nd wave

• nmgrs2. number of managers, 2nd wave

• nregs2. number of registers, 2nd wave

• hrsopen2. hours open, 2nd wave

• emp2. number of employees, 2nd wave

• compown. =1 if company owned

• chain. BK = 1, KFC = 2, Roy Rogers = 3, Wendy's = 4

• density. population density, town

• crmrte. crime rate, town

• state. NJ = 1, PA = 2

• prpblck. proportion black, zipcode

• prppov. proportion in poverty, zipcode

• prpncar. proportion no car, zipcode

• hseval. median housing value, zipcode

• nstores. number of stores, zipcode

• income. median family income, zipcode

• county. county label

• lpsoda. log(psoda)

• lpfries. log(pfries)

• lhseval. log(hseval)

• lincome. log(income)

• ldensity. log(density)

• NJ. =1 for New Jersey

• BK. =1 if Burger King

• KFC. =1 if Kentucky Fried Chicken

• RR. =1 if Roy Rogers

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(discrim)

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