Demographic characteristics of developmental students at 2-year colleges and 4-year colleges

Data used for Exercise 8.50

Develop

Format

A data frame/tibble with 5656 observations on two variables

race

a factor with levels African American, American Indian, Asian, Latino, and White

college

a factor with levels Two-year and Four-year

Source

Research in Development Education (1994), V. 11, 2.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

T1 <- xtabs(~race + college, data = Develop)
T1
#>                   college
#> race               Two-year Four-year
#>   African American      545       986
#>   American Indian        24        66
#>   Asian                  71        66
#>   Latino                142       230
#>   White                1587      1939
chisq.test(T1)
#> 
#> 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
#> 
#> data:  T1
#> X-squared = 55.227, df = 4, p-value = 2.912e-11
#> 
rm(T1)