elmhurst.txt

elmhurst               package:openintro               R Documentation

Elmhurst College gift aid

Description:

     A random sample of 50 students gift aid for students at Elmhurst
     College.

Usage:

     data("elmhurst")

Format:

     A data frame with 50 observations on the following 3 variables.

     ‘family_income’ Family income of the student, in $1000s.

     ‘gift_aid’ Gift aid, in $1000s.

     ‘price_paid’ Price paid by the student (tuition - gift aid).

Source:

     These data were sampled from a table of data for all freshman from
     the 2011 class at Elmhurst College that accompanied an article
     titled What Students Really Pay to Go to College published online
     by The Chronicle of Higher Education: <
     http://chronicle.com/article/What-Students-Really-Pay-to-Go/131435>.