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## Absenteeism from School in Rural New South Wales

### Description

The `quine` data frame has 146 rows and 5 columns. Children from Walgett, New South Wales, Australia, were classified by Culture, Age, Sex and Learner status and the number of days absent from school in a particular school year was recorded.

### Usage

    quine

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

`Eth`

  ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, (`"A"` or `"N"`).

`Sex`

  sex: factor with levels (`"F"` or `"M"`).

`Age`

  age group: Primary (`"F0"`), or forms `"F1,"` `"F2"` or `"F3"`.

`Lrn`

  learner status: factor with levels Average or Slow learner, (`"AL"` or `"SL"`).

`Days`

  days absent from school in the year.

### Source

S. Quine, quoted in Aitkin, M. (1978) The analysis of unbalanced cross classifications (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A 141, 195–223.

### References

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

[Package MASS version 7.3-45 Index]