# guber.txt # Source: D. L. Guber (1999). Getting what you pay for: The debate # over equity in public school expenditures. Journal of Statistical # Education, 7(2). Available online at the JSE website. # http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.guber.cfm # Variables are: # state: name of state (to be read in as row names) # expend: state average expenditure per K-12 pupil in thousands of dollars # ratio: state average student to teacher ratio # pay: state average teacher pay in thousands of dollars # perc: percent eligible students who took the SAT # satv: state average SAT Verbal score # satq: state average SAT Quantitative score # A more detailed explanation of the data set is available here: # http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/sat.txt # "state" "expend" "pay" "ratio" "perc" "satv" "satq" "Alabama" 4.405 31.144 17.2 8 491 538 "Alaska" 8.963 47.951 17.6 47 445 489 "Arizona" 4.778 32.175 19.3 27 448 496 "Arkansas" 4.459 28.934 17.1 6 482 523 "California" 4.992 41.078 24.0 45 417 485 "Colorado" 5.443 34.571 18.4 29 462 518 "Connecticut" 8.817 50.045 14.4 81 431 477 "Delaware" 7.03 39.076 16.6 68 429 468 "Florida" 5.718 32.588 19.1 48 420 469 "Georgia" 5.193 32.291 16.3 65 406 448 "Hawaii" 6.078 38.518 17.9 57 407 482 "Idaho" 4.21 29.783 19.1 15 468 511 "Illinois" 6.136 39.431 17.3 13 488 560 "Indiana" 5.826 36.785 17.5 58 415 467 "Iowa" 5.483 31.511 15.8 5 516 583 "Kansas" 5.817 34.652 15.1 9 503 557 "Kentucky" 5.217 32.257 17.0 11 477 522 "Louisiana" 4.761 26.461 16.8 9 486 535 "Maine" 6.428 31.972 13.8 68 427 469 "Maryland" 7.245 40.661 17.0 64 430 479 "Massachusetts" 7.287 40.795 14.8 80 430 477 "Michigan" 6.994 41.895 20.1 11 484 549 "Minnesota" 6.00 35.948 17.5 9 506 579 "Mississippi" 4.08 26.818 17.5 4 496 540 "Missouri" 5.383 31.189 15.5 9 495 550 "Montana" 5.692 28.785 16.3 21 473 536 "Nebraska" 5.935 30.922 14.5 9 494 556 "Nevada" 5.16 34.836 18.7 30 434 483 "New.Hampshire" 5.859 34.72 15.6 70 444 491 "New.Jersey" 9.774 46.087 13.8 70 420 478 "New.Mexico" 4.586 28.493 17.2 11 485 530 "New.York" 9.623 47.612 15.2 74 419 473 "North.Carolina" 5.077 30.793 16.2 60 411 454 "North.Dakota" 4.775 26.327 15.3 5 515 592 "Ohio" 6.162 36.802 16.6 23 460 515 "Oklahoma" 4.845 28.172 15.5 9 491 536 "Oregon" 6.436 38.555 19.9 51 448 499 "Pennsylvania" 7.109 44.51 17.1 70 419 461 "Rhode.Island" 7.469 40.729 14.7 70 425 463 "South.Carolina" 4.797 30.279 16.4 58 401 443 "South.Dakota" 4.775 25.994 14.4 5 505 563 "Tennessee" 4.388 32.477 18.6 12 497 543 "Texas" 5.222 31.223 15.7 47 419 474 "Utah" 3.656 29.082 24.3 4 513 563 "Vermont" 6.75 35.406 13.8 68 429 472 "Virginia" 5.327 33.987 14.6 65 428 468 "Washington" 5.906 36.151 20.2 48 443 494 "West.Virginia" 6.107 31.944 14.8 17 448 484 "Wisconsin" 6.93 37.746 15.9 9 501 572 "Wyoming" 6.16 31.285 14.9 10 476 525