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SAT data assembled for a statistics education journal article on the link between SAT scores and measures of educational expenditures

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A data frame with 50 observations on the following variables.

• state a factor with names of each state

• expend expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools, 1994-95 (in thousands of US dollars)

• ratio average pupil/teacher ratio in public elementary and secondary schools, Fall 1994

• salary estimated average annual salary of teachers in public elementary and secondary schools, 1994-95 (in thousands of US dollars)

• frac percentage of all eligible students taking the SAT, 1994-95

• verbal average verbal SAT score, 1994-95

• math average math SAT score, 1994-95

• sat average total SAT score, 1994-95

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http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.guber.cfm

References

Deborah Lynn Guber, "Getting what you pay for: the debate over equity in public school expenditures" (1999), Journal of Statistics Education 7(2).

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