This dataset contains variables that address the relationship between public school expenditures and academic performance, as measured by the SAT.
data(SAT)A data frame with variables state, expend
(expenditure per pupil), ratio (pupil/teacher ratio);
salary (average teacher salary; percentage of SAT
takers; verbal (verbal score); math (math score);
total (average total).
This data comes from http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.guber.cfm. It is also included in the mosaic package and commented on at http://sas-and-r.blogspot.com/2012/02/example-920-visualizing-simpsons.html. The variables are described at http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/sat.txt.
The author references the original source: The variables in this dataset, all aggregated to the state level, were extracted from the 1997 Digest of Education Statistics, an annual publication of the U.S. Department of Education. Data from a number of different tables were downloaded from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website (Available at: http://nces01.ed.gov/pubs/digest97/index.html) and merged into a single data file.