Gollege GPA and its predictors.
data("gpa1")
A data frame with 141 observations.
in years
=1 if sophomore
=1 if junior
=1 if senior
=1 if fifth year senior
=1 if male
=1 if live on campus
=1 if business major
=1 if engineering major
MSU GPA
high school GPA
'achievement' score
=1 if job <= 19 hours
=1 if job >= 20 hours
=1 if drive to campus
=1 if bicycle to campus
=1 if walk to campus
=1 if do volunteer work
=1 of pers computer at sch
=1 if fraternity or sorority
=1 if own car
=1 if have siblings
=1 if boy- or girlfriend
=1 if belong to MSU club
avg lectures missed per week
avg # days per week drink alcohol
=1 if Michigan high school
=1 if father college grad
=1 if mother college grad
Jeffrey M. Wooldrige (2006): Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 3rd ed., Thomson South-Western.
Christopher Lemmon, a former MSU undergraduate, collected these data from a survey he took of MSU students in Fall 1994.
This is a nice example of how students can obtain an original data set by focusing locally and carefully composing a survey.