law                package:bootstrap                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The law school data. A random sample of size n=15 from the 
     universe of 82 USA law schools. Two measurements: LSAT (average
     score on  a national law test) and GPA (average undergraduate
     grade-point average). 'law82' contains data for the whole universe
     of 82 law schools.

_U_s_a_g_e:

             data(law)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 15 observations on the following 2 variables.

     _L_S_A_T a numeric vector

     _G_P_A a numeric vector

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     In the book for which this package is support software, this
     example is used to bootstrap the correlation coefficient.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R. (1993) An Introduction to the
     Bootstrap. Chapman and Hall, New York, London.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'law82'.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(law)
     str(law)
     plot(law)

