These are the item responses to a questionaire on verbal
aggression. These data are used throughout De Boeck and
Wilson, Explanatory Item Response Models
(Springer, 2004) to illustrate various forms of item
response models.
Format
A data frame with 7584 observations on the following 13 variables.
Anger
the subject's Trait Anger score as measured on
the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI)
Gender
the subject's gender - a factor with levels
M and F
item
the item on the questionaire, as a factor
resp
the subject's response to the item - an ordered
factor with levels no < perhaps < yes
id
the subject identifier, as a factor
btype
behavior type - a factor with levels
curse, scold and shout
situ
situation type - a factor with levels
other and self indicating other-to-blame and self-to-blame
mode
behavior mode - a factor with levels want
and do
r2
dichotomous version of the response - a factor with
levels N and Y