wam                 package:gmvalid                 R Documentation

_W_o_m_e_n _a_n_d _M_a_t_h_e_m_a_t_i_c_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The data set describes the attitude of high school students toward
     mathematics achievement and related topics.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(wam)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 1190 observations on the following 6 variables.

     '_l_e_c_t_u_r_e' a factor with levels '1' (yes) '2' (no) 

     '_g_e_n_d_e_r' a factor with levels '1' (female) '2' (male) 

     '_s_c_h_o_o_l' a factor with levels '1' (suburban) '2' (urban) 

     '_w_o_r_k' a factor with levels '1' (will need math) '2' (won't) 

     '_s_u_b_j_e_c_t' a factor with levels '1' (science) '2' (arts) 

     '_p_l_a_n_s' a factor with levels '1' (college) '2' (job) 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     1190 high school students of eight schools in New Jersey responded
     to  the questionnaire. The survey was performed by Lacampagne
     (1979).

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Fowlkes, EB, Freeny, AE and Landwehr, JM (1988) _Evaluating
     logistic models for large contingency tables._ Journal of the
     American Statistical Association, 83:611-622.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Lacampagne, CB (1979) _An Evaluation of the Women and Mathematics
     (WAM) Program and Associated Sex-Related Differences in the
     Teaching,  Learning and Counseling of Mathematics._ Ed.D. Thesis,
     Columbia University Teachers College, USA.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       data(wam)
       gm.analysis(wam, program="coco")

