schools function

data

8 schools analysis

data(schools)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 3 variables.

• school: See Source.
• estimate: See Source.
• sd: See Source.

Source

Rubin, D.B. (1981): Estimation in Parallel Randomized Experiments. Journal of Educational Statistics 6(4), 377-400.

Section 5.5 of Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S., Rubin, D.B. (2003): Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd edition, CRC Press.