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The Painter's Data of de Piles
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Description
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The subjective assessment, on a 0 to 20 integer scale, of 54 classical
painters. The painters were assessed on four characteristics:
composition, drawing, colour and expression. The data is due to the
Eighteenth century art critic, de Piles.

Usage
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::

    painters

Format
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The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components are:

``Composition``
    Composition score.

``Drawing``
    Drawing score.

``Colour``
    Colour score.

``Expression``
    Expression score.

``School``
    The school to which a painter belongs, as indicated by a factor
    level code as follows: ``"A"``: Renaissance; ``"B"``: Mannerist;
    ``"C"``: Seicento; ``"D"``: Venetian; ``"E"``: Lombard; ``"F"``:
    Sixteenth Century; ``"G"``: Seventeenth Century; ``"H"``: French.

Source
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A. J. Weekes (1986) *A Genstat Primer.* Edward Arnold.

M. Davenport and G. Studdert-Kennedy (1972) The statistical analysis of
aesthetic judgement: an exploration. *Applied Statistics* **21**,
324â€“333.

I. T. Jolliffe (1986) *Principal Component Analysis.* Springer.

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