This data was taken from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
Health. It is a cross-sectional sample of participants from grades 7--12,
described and analyzed by Warne (2014).
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 4344 observations on the following 3 variables.
grade
an ordered factor with levels 7 <
8 < 9 < 10 < 11 < 12
depression
a numeric vector
anxiety
a numeric vector
Details
depression is the response to the question "In the last month, how
often did you feel depressed or blue?"
anxiety is the response to the question "In the last month, how often
did you have trouble relaxing?"
The responses for depression and anxiety were recorded on a
5-point Likert scale, with categories 0="Never", 1="Rarely",
2="Occasionally", 3="Often", 4="Every day"