R: University California Berkeley Graduate Admissions

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## University California Berkeley Graduate Admissions

### Description

University California Berkeley Graduate Admissions: counts cross-classified by acceptance/rejection and gender, for the six largest departments.

### Usage

    data(ucberk)

### Format

A data frame with 6 departmental groups with the following 5 columns.

m.deny

  Counts of men denied admission.

m.admit

  Counts of men admitted.

w.deny

  Counts of women denied admission.

w.admit

  Counts of women admitted.

dept

  Department (the six largest), called `A`, codeB, ..., codeF.

### Details

From Bickel et al. (1975), the data consists of applications for admission to graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley, for the fall 1973 quarter. In the admissions cycle for that quarter, the Graduate Division at Berkeley received approximately 15,000 applications, some of which were later withdrawn or transferred to a different proposed entry quarter by the applicants. Of the applications finally remaining for the fall 1973 cycle 12,763 were sufficiently complete to permit a decision. There were about 101 graduate department and interdepartmental graduate majors. There were 8442 male applicants and 4321 female applicants. About 44 percent of the males and about 35 percent of the females were admitted. The data are well-known for illustrating Simpson's paradox.

### References

Bickel, P. J., Hammel, E. A. and O'Connell, J. W. (1975). Sex bias in graduate admissions: data from Berkeley. Science, 187(4175): 398–404.

Freedman, D., Pisani, R. and Purves, R. (1998). Chapter 2 of Statistics, 3rd. ed., W. W. Norton & Company.

### Examples

    summary(ucberk)

[Package VGAM version 1.1-3 Index]