Star98 Educational Dataset
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Description
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This data is on the California education policy and outcomes (STAR program
results for 1998.  The data measured standardized testing by the California
Department of Education that required evaluation of 2nd - 11th grade students
by the the Stanford 9 test on a variety of subjects.  This dataset is at
the level of the unified school district and consists of 303 cases.  The
binary response variable represents the number of 9th graders scoring
over the national median value on the mathematics exam.

The data used in this example is only a subset of the original source.


Notes
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::

    Number of Observations - 303 (counties in California).

    Number of Variables - 13 and 8 interaction terms.

    Definition of variables names::

        NABOVE   - Total number of students above the national median for the
                   math section.
        NBELOW   - Total number of students below the national median for the
                   math section.
        LOWINC   - Percentage of low income students
        PERASIAN - Percentage of Asian student
        PERBLACK - Percentage of black students
        PERHISP  - Percentage of Hispanic students
        PERMINTE - Percentage of minority teachers
        AVYRSEXP - Sum of teachers' years in educational service divided by the
                number of teachers.
        AVSALK   - Total salary budget including benefits divided by the number
                   of full-time teachers (in thousands)
        PERSPENK - Per-pupil spending (in thousands)
        PTRATIO  - Pupil-teacher ratio.
        PCTAF    - Percentage of students taking UC/CSU prep courses
        PCTCHRT  - Percentage of charter schools
        PCTYRRND - Percentage of year-round schools

        The below variables are interaction terms of the variables defined
        above.

        PERMINTE_AVYRSEXP
        PEMINTE_AVSAL
        AVYRSEXP_AVSAL
        PERSPEN_PTRATIO
        PERSPEN_PCTAF
        PTRATIO_PCTAF
        PERMINTE_AVTRSEXP_AVSAL
        PERSPEN_PTRATIO_PCTAF


Source
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Jeff Gill's `Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach`

http://jgill.wustl.edu/research/books.html


Copyright
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Used with express permission from the original author,
who retains all rights.