AER (version 1.2-14)

PhDPublications: Doctoral Publications

Description

Cross-section data on the scientific productivity of PhD students in biochemistry.

Usage

data("PhDPublications")

Format

A data frame containing 915 observations on 6 variables.

articles

Number of articles published during last 3 years of PhD.

gender

factor indicating gender.

married

factor. Is the PhD student married?

kids

Number of children less than 6 years old.

prestige

Prestige of the graduate program.

mentor

Number of articles published by student's mentor.

References

Long, J.S. (1990). Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Long, J.S. (1997). The Origin of Sex Differences in Science. Social Forces, 68, 1297--1315.

Examples

 if(!requireNamespace("MASS") ||
              !requireNamespace("pscl")) {
  if(interactive() || is.na(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_PACKAGE_NAME_", NA))) {
    stop("not all packages required for the example are installed")
  } else q() }
## from Long (1997)
data("PhDPublications")

## Table 8.1, p. 227
summary(PhDPublications)

## Figure 8.2, p. 220
plot(0:10, dpois(0:10, mean(PhDPublications$articles)), type = "b", col = 2,
  xlab = "Number of articles", ylab = "Probability")
lines(0:10, prop.table(table(PhDPublications$articles))[1:11], type = "b")
legend("topright", c("observed", "predicted"), col = 1:2, lty = rep(1, 2), bty = "n")

## Table 8.2, p. 228
fm_lrm <- lm(log(articles + 0.5) ~ ., data = PhDPublications)
summary(fm_lrm)
-2 * logLik(fm_lrm)
fm_prm <- glm(articles ~ ., data = PhDPublications, family = poisson)
library("MASS")
fm_nbrm <- glm.nb(articles ~ ., data = PhDPublications)

## Table 8.3, p. 246
library("pscl")
fm_zip <- zeroinfl(articles ~ . | ., data = PhDPublications)
fm_zinb <- zeroinfl(articles ~ . | ., data = PhDPublications, dist = "negbin")