The Zuni data from the law case: Zuni Public School v. United States Department of Education

Description

Number of students and available revenue per pupil in each school district in New Mexico

Usage

zuni

Format

A multivariate time series with 89 observations on 4 variables: District, Revenue and Mem (number of students). The object is of class "mts".

Details

The Zuni data come from a law case "The Zuni Public School District No. 89, Gallup-McKinley County Public School District No. 1, Petitioners v. United States Department of Education" concerning whether the revenue per pupil data satisfied a standard for "equal" expenditures per-pupil in a state. This classification determines whether most of the federal money given to the state under the law goes to the state or to the local school districts.

Source

Gastwirth, J. L. (2006). A Sixty Million Dollar Statistical Issue Arising in the Interpretation and Calculation of a Measure of Relative Disparity Mandated by Law: Zuni Public School District 89 v. U.S. Department of Education. (working paper, Department of Statistics, George Washington University).

Examples

data(zuni)
hist(zuni[,"Revenue"], br=40, col="blue", main="The Zuni Revenue")

Results