R Dataset / Package car / Cowles
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Cowles data set which pertains to Cowles and Davis's Data on Volunteering. The Cowles data set is found in the car R package. You can load the Cowles data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Cowles"). This will load the data into a variable called Cowles. If R says the Cowles data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("car") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Cowles R data set. The size of this file is about 26,923 bytes.
Cowles and Davis's Data on Volunteering
Description
The Cowles
data frame has 1421 rows and 4 columns. These data come from a study of the personality determinants of volunteering for psychological research.
Usage
Cowles
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- neuroticism
-
scale from Eysenck personality inventory
- extraversion
-
scale from Eysenck personality inventory
- sex
-
a factor with levels:
female
;male
- volunteer
-
volunteeing, a factor with levels:
no
;yes
Source
Cowles, M. and C. Davis (1987) The subject matter of psychology: Volunteers. British Journal of Social Psychology 26, 97–102.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.