R: Exam results for six inner London Education Authorities

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## Exam results for six inner London Education Authorities

### Description

A partially observed version of the tutorial dataset in package R2MLwiN.It includes examination results from six inner London Education Authorities (school boards).

### Usage

    data(cldata)

### Format

A data frame with 4059 observations on the following 6 variables.

`school`

  A school identifier.

`student`

  A student ID.

`normexam`

  Students' exam score at age 16, normalised and partially observed.

`sex`

  Sex of pupil; a factor with levels boy, girl.

`cons`

  A column of 1s. Useful to add an intercept to th eimputation model.

`standlrt`

  Students' score at age 11 on the London Reading Test (LRT), standardised.

`schgend`

  Schools' gender; a factor with levels corresponding to mixed school (mixedsch), boys' school (boysch), and girls' school (girlsch).

`avslrt`

  Average LRT score in school.

`schav`

  Average LRT score in school, coded into 3 categories: low = bottom 25%, mid = middle 50%, high = top 25%.

`vrband`

  Students' score in test of verbal reasoning at age 11, a factor with 3 levels: vb1 = top 25%, vb2 = middle 50%, vb3 = bottom 25%.

### Details

These fully observed verison of the data is available with package R2MLwiN.

### Source

Browne, W. J. (2012) MCMC Estimation in MLwiN Version 2.26. University of Bristol: Centre for Multilevel Modelling.

Goldstein, H., Rasbash, J., Yang, M., Woodhouse, G., Pan, H., Nuttall, D., Thomas, S. (1993) A multilevel analysis of school examination results. Oxford Review of Education, 19, 425-433.

Rasbash, J., Charlton, C., Browne, W.J., Healy, M. and Cameron, B. (2009) MLwiN Version 2.1. Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol.

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