R: Simulated Sesame Street Data

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## Simulated Sesame Street Data

### Description

This is a simulated counterpart of part of the Sesame Street data presented by Stevens (1996, Appendix A) concerning the effect of the first year of the Sesame street series on the knowledge of 240 children in the age range 34 to 69 months. We will use the following variables: sex; site of child's origin; setting in which Sesame Street is watched; age; whether or not the child is encouraged to watch; Peabody metal age score; score on numbers test before, after and in a follow up measurement; and scores on knowledge of body parts, letters, forms, numbers, relations, and classifications, both before and after watching Sesame Street for a year.

### Usage

    data(sesamesim)

### Format

A data frame with 240 rows and 21 variables.

### Details

sex | `integer` | Sex of the child; 1 = boy, 2 = girl
site | `integer` | Site of the child's origin; 1 = disadvantaged inner city, 2 = advantaged suburban , 3 = advantaged rural, 4 = disadvantaged rural, 5 = disadvantaged Spanish speaking
setting | `integer` | Setting in which the child watches Sesame Street; 1 = at home, 2 = at school
age | `integer` | Age of the child in months
viewenc | `integer` | Whether or not the child is encouraged to watch Sesame Street; 0 = no, 1 = yes
peabody | `integer` | Peabody mental age score of the child; the higher the score the higher the mental age
prenumb | `integer` | score on a numbers test before watching Sesame Street for a year
postnumb | `integer` | score on a numbers test after watching Sesame Street for a year
funumb | `integer` | follow up numbers test score measured one year after postnumb
Bb | `integer` | Knowledge of body parts before
Bl | `integer` | Knowledge of letters before
Bf | `integer` | Knowledge of forms before
Bn | `integer` | Knowledge of numbers before
Br | `integer` | Knowledge of relations before
Bc | `integer` | Knowledge of classifications before
Ab | `integer` | Knowledge of body parts after
Al | `integer` | Knowledge of letters after
Af | `integer` | Knowledge of forms after
An | `integer` | Knowledge of numbers after
Ar | `integer` | Knowledge of relations after
Ac | `integer` | Knowledge of classifications after

### References

Stevens, J. (1996). Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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