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Salaries for Professors

Description

The 2008-09 nine-month academic salary for Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors in a college in the U.S. The data were collected as part of the on-going effort of the college's administration to monitor salary differences between male and female faculty members.

Usage

Salaries

Format

A data frame with 397 observations on the following 6 variables.

rank

a factor with levels AssocProf AsstProf Prof

discipline

a factor with levels A (“theoretical” departments) or B (“applied” departments).

yrs.since.phd

years since PhD.

yrs.service

years of service.

sex

a factor with levels Female Male

salary

nine-month salary, in dollars.

References

Fox J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition Sage.