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Absenteeism from School in Rural New South Wales
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Description
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The ``quine`` data frame has 146 rows and 5 columns. Children from
Walgett, New South Wales, Australia, were classified by Culture, Age,
Sex and Learner status and the number of days absent from school in a
particular school year was recorded.

Usage
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::

    quine

Format
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This data frame contains the following columns:

``Eth``
    ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, (``"A"`` or ``"N"``).

``Sex``
    sex: factor with levels (``"F"`` or ``"M"``).

``Age``
    age group: Primary (``"F0"``), or forms ``"F1,"`` ``"F2"`` or
    ``"F3"``.

``Lrn``
    learner status: factor with levels Average or Slow learner,
    (``"AL"`` or ``"SL"``).

``Days``
    days absent from school in the year.

Source
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S. Quine, quoted in Aitkin, M. (1978) The analysis of unbalanced cross
classifications (with discussion). *Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society series A* **141**, 195â€“223.

References
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Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) *Modern Applied Statistics with
S.* Fourth edition. Springer.
