Course Data

The data refer to the numbers of courses taken by a class of 65 students from the first year of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics. The students enrolled in this class attended 8 courses during the first year of their study. The total numbers of successful examinations (including resits) were recorded.

Course_data

Format

A data frame with 2 columns and 9 rows

sub.pass

subjects passed

fre

Observed frequencies

Source

Extracted from

Karlis, D. & Xekalaki, E., 2008. The Polygonal Distribution. In Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling. Boston: Birkhuser Boston, pp. 21-33.

Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4626-4_2.

Examples

Course_data$sub.pass             # extracting the binomial random variables
#> [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
sum(Course_data$fre)             # summing all the frequencies
#> [1] 65