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Researchers interested in the relationship between absenteeism from school and certain demographic characteristics of children collected data from 146 randomly sampled students in rural New South Wales, Australia, in a particular school year.

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• eth - Ethnicity, representing Aboriginal (`A`) or not (`N`).

• sex - Gender.

• age - Age bucket.

• lrn - Learner status, with average learner (`AL`) and slow learner (`SL`).

• days - Number of days absent.

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Venables WN, Ripley BD. 2002. Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. New York: Springer. Data can also be found in the R `MASS` package under the data set name `quine`.

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