An investigator is interested in understanding the relationship, if any,
between the analytical skills of young gifted children and the variables listed below. The analytical skills are evaluated using a standard testing procedure and the score on that test is included in the dataset. Data were collected from schools in a large city on a set of 36 children who were identified as gifted children soon after they reached the age of four.
Variable Description Variable Normal or
Name in Data Type Level of Not Set Measurement Cartoons Average number of Ratio Normal hours per week the child watched cartoons on TV during the past three months Count Age in months Interval Normal when the child first counted to ten successfully Edutv Average number of Ratio Normal hours per week the child watched an educational program on TV during the past three months Fatheriq Father’s IQ Interval Normal Motheriq Mother’s IQ Interval Normal Read Average number of Ratio Normal hours per week the child’s mother or father reads to the child Score The score in test of Ratio Normal analytical skills. Speak Age in months Interval Normal when the child first said “mummy” or “daddy.” Births This is a random sample of 1000 births in North Carolina in 2004.
Variable Description Variable Type Normal or Not
Name in Data Level of Set Measurement Fage The father’s age Ratio Normal Fageord Father’s age groups. Ordinal Not Normal This is not in the original dataset and was added via recoding.
Gained The mother’s weight Ratio Normal
gain, in pounds Gainedord Weight gained groups. Ordinal Not Normal This is not in the original dataset and was added via recoding. Gender The gender of the baby Nominal Not Normal Habit Whether the mother Nominal Not Normal was a smoker Lowbirthweight Whether the baby had a Nominal Not Normal low birth weight Mage The mother’s age Ratio Normal Mageord Mother’s age groups. Ordinal Not Normal This is not in the original dataset and was added via recoding. Marital Whether the mother Nominal Not Normal was married Mature The mother’s maturity Nominal Not Normal status Premie Whether the baby was Nominal Not Normal premature Visits The number of hospital Interval Normal visits made by the mother Weeks Length of pregnancy, Interval Normal, but the skew and in weeks. kurtosis are very poor so the data may be better treated as not normal. Weight Birth weight of the Ratio Normal baby, in pounds Whitemom Whether the mother Nominal Not Normal was white Hypothetical Data Set from Rubin Book
Variable Description Variable Type Level of
Name in Measurement Data Set gender Gender Nominal ethnic Ethnicity Nominal age Age Ratio Trauma # of traumas experienced Interval Group Treatment group Nominal SBI # of serious behavioral incidents Interval Campus Earned off-campus privileges? Nominal Cottage Cottage Nominal Postsum Posttest score on Trauma Symptoms Scale Interval Presum Pretest score on Trauma Symptoms Scale Interval Change Change score on Trauma symptoms Scale from pretest to posttest Interval Campus2 Earned off-campus privileges post- treatment? Nominal Qual Quality of therapist client relationship Interval Cancel # of canceled therapy appointments Interval
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