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The Painter's Data of de Piles
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<h3>Description</h3>


<p>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.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

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painters
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<h3>Format</h3>


<p>The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components are:
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<dl>
<dt><code>Composition</code></dt><dd>
<p>Composition score.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Drawing</code></dt><dd>
<p>Drawing score.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Colour</code></dt><dd>
<p>Colour score.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Expression</code></dt><dd>
<p>Expression score.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>School</code></dt><dd>
<p>The school to which a painter belongs, as indicated by a factor level
code as follows:
<code>"A"</code>: Renaissance;
<code>"B"</code>: Mannerist;
<code>"C"</code>: Seicento;
<code>"D"</code>: Venetian;
<code>"E"</code>: Lombard;
<code>"F"</code>: Sixteenth Century;
<code>"G"</code>: Seventeenth Century;
<code>"H"</code>: French.
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</dd>
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<h3>Source</h3>


<p>A. J. Weekes (1986)
<EM>A Genstat Primer.</EM> Edward Arnold.
</p>
<p>M. Davenport and G. Studdert-Kennedy (1972) The statistical
analysis of aesthetic judgement: an exploration.
<EM>Applied Statistics</EM> <B>21</B>,  324&ndash;333.
</p>
<p>I. T. Jolliffe (1986)
<EM>Principal Component Analysis.</EM> Springer.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002)
<EM>Modern Applied Statistics with S.</EM> Fourth edition.  Springer.
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