R Dataset / Package multgee / housing
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the housing data set which pertains to Homeless Data. The housing data set is found in the multgee R package. You can load the housing data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("housing"). This will load the data into a variable called housing. If R says the housing data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("multgee") 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 housing R data set. The size of this file is about 14,953 bytes.
Homeless Data
Description
Housing status for 362 severely mentally ill homeless subjects measured at baseline and at three follow-up times.
Usage
data(housing)
Format
A data frame with 1448 observations on the following 4 variables:
id
-
Subject identifier variable.
y
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Housing status response, coded as (1) for street living, (2) for community living and (3) for independent housing.
time
-
Time recorded in months.
sec
-
Section 8 rent certificate indicator.
Source
Hulrburt M.S., Wood, P.A. and Hough, R.L. (1996) Providing independent housing for the homeless mentally ill: a novel approach to evaluating longitudinal housing patterns. Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 291–310.
Examples
data(housing) str(housing)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.