| FirstYearGPA | R Documentation |
Predicting first-year college GPA
A data frame with 219 observations on the following 10 variables.
GPA | First-year college GPA on a 0.0 to 4.0 scale |
HSGPA | High school GPA on a 0.0 to 4.0 scale |
SATV | Verbal/critical reading SAT score |
SATM | Math SAT score |
Male | 1= male, 0= female |
HU | Number of credit hours earned in humanities courses in high school |
SS | Number of credit hours earned in social science courses in high school |
FirstGen | 1= student is the first in her or his family to attend college, 0=otherwise |
White | 1= white students, 0= others |
CollegeBound | 1=attended a high school where >=50% students intended to go on to college, 0=otherwise |
The data in FirstYearGPA contains information from a sample of 219 first year students at a midwestern college that might be used to build a model to predict their first year GPA.
A sample from a larger set of data collected in 1996 by a professor at this college.