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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

    data(quine)

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

`Eth`
  Ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, (`"A"` or `"N"`).
`Sex`
  Sex factor: (`"F"` or `"M"`).
`Age`
  Age group: Primary (`"F0"`), or forms `"F1,"` `"F2"` or `"F3"`.
`Lrn`
  Learner status factor: 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.

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