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Salaries for Professors
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<h3>Description</h3>


<p>The 2008-09 nine-month academic
salary for Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors in a
college in the U.S. The data were collected as part of the
on-going effort of the college's administration to monitor salary differences
between male and female faculty members. 
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<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>Salaries</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 397 observations on the following 6 variables.
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<dt><code>rank</code></dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code>AssocProf</code> <code>AsstProf</code> <code>Prof</code></p>
</dd>
<dt><code>discipline</code></dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code>A</code> (&ldquo;theoretical&rdquo; departments) 
or <code>B</code> (&ldquo;applied&rdquo; departments).</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>yrs.since.phd</code></dt><dd><p>years since PhD.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>yrs.service</code></dt><dd><p>years of service.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>sex</code></dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code>Female</code> <code>Male</code></p>
</dd>
<dt><code>salary</code></dt><dd><p>nine-month salary, in dollars.</p>
</dd>
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Fox J. and Weisberg, S. (2011)
<EM>An R Companion to Applied Regression</EM>, Second Edition
Sage.
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