Description

A data set from the 2006 General Social Survey that shows the relationship in the United States between opinion about funding stem cell research and the fundamentalism/liberalism of one’s religious beliefs, stratified by gender.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 24 rows and 4 variables:

research

opinion about funding stem cell research with levels definitely, probably, probably not, definitely not

gender

the gender of the respondent with levels female and male

religion

the fundamentalism/liberalism of one’s religious beliefs with levels fundamentalist, moderate, liberal

frequency

the number of times a respondent fell in each of the combinations of levels for research, religion and gender

Source

The stemcell data set is analyzed in Agresti (2010, Subsection~4.1.5).

References

Agresti A (2010). *Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data* (2nd edition). Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Wiley

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