Student Survey Data

This data frame contains the responses of 237 Statistics I students at the University of Adelaide to a number of questions.

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Format

The components of the data frame are:

Sex: The sex of the student. (Factor with levels "Male" and "Female".)
Wr.Hnd: span (distance from tip of thumb to tip of little finger of spread hand) of writing hand, in centimetres.
NW.Hnd: span of non-writing hand.
W.Hnd: writing hand of student. (Factor, with levels "Left" and "Right".)
Fold: “Fold your arms! Which is on top” (Factor, with levels "R on L", "L on R", "Neither".)
Pulse: pulse rate of student (beats per minute).
Clap: ‘Clap your hands! Which hand is on top?’ (Factor, with levels "Right", "Left", "Neither".)
Exer: how often the student exercises. (Factor, with levels "Freq" (frequently), "Some", "None".)
Smoke: how much the student smokes. (Factor, levels "Heavy", "Regul" (regularly), "Occas" (occasionally), "Never".)
Height: height of the student in centimetres.
M.I: whether the student expressed height in imperial (feet/inches) or metric (centimetres/metres) units. (Factor, levels "Metric", "Imperial".)
Age: age of the student in years.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.