Title: Graduate Statistics Program Datasets
Version: 0.3.0
Description: A small collection of data on graduate statistics programs from the United States.
URL: https://brettklamer.com/work/statprograms/
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Depends: R (≥ 2.10.0)
LazyData: TRUE
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-04-30 23:58:03 UTC; x
Author: Brett Klamer [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Brett Klamer <code@brettklamer.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-05-01 00:40:02 UTC

Degrees Awarded by Year

Description

This dataset contains the number of degrees awarded per year. It's based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics as retrieved by Steve Pierson. See https://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2014/07/28/categorization-of-statistics-degrees for more information.

Usage

degreesawarded

Format

A data.frame with 4606 observations and 5 columns. The columns are defined as follows:

school

The college

program_category

The program type categorized as either "Statistics" or "Biostatistics"

degree_category

The degree categorized as either "Master" or "Doctorate"

year

The year the degrees were awarded

count

The number of degrees awarded

Source

"Statistics and Biostatistics Degree Data.", https://www.amstat.org/education/statistics-and-biostatistics-degree-data

Examples

## Not run: 
data(degreesawarded)
summary(degreesawarded)

# In wide format as provided by Steve Pierson
library(tidyr)
spread(degreesawarded, key = year, value = count)

## End(Not run)

Graduate Statistics Program Data

Description

This dataset contains various information from the majority of graduate statistics programs in the United States.

Usage

statprograms

Format

A data.frame with 490 observations and 16 columns. The columns are defined as follows:

school

The college

program

The program type as advertised by the department

program_category

The program type categorized as either "Statistics" or "Biostatistics"

degree

The degree given by the department

degree_category

The degree categorized as either "Master" or "Doctorate"

state

The state

city

The city

square_miles

The square miles of the city (or region) from https://www.wikipedia.org/

population

The population of the city (or region) from https://www.wikipedia.org/ or https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html. Most are estimates from 2010 to 2014.

density

The population density

average_winter

The average winter temperature

average_summer

The average summer temperature

latitude

The latitude of the department's building (or as close as possible) from https://www.gps-coordinates.net/

longitude

The longitude of the department's building (or as close as possible) from https://www.gps-coordinates.net/

link

The URL of the department's website

date_collected

The date the information was recorded

Author(s)

Brett Klamer

Examples

## Not run: 
data(statprograms)
summary(statprograms)

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Plot locations on a map
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
library(maps)
library(ggplot2)
library(mapproj)

us_states <- map_data("state")

ggplot(
  data = statprograms[statprograms$state != "Alaska", ],
  mapping = aes(x = longitude, y = latitude)
) +
  geom_polygon(
    data = us_states,
    aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group),
    fill = "white",
    color = "gray50"
  ) +
  geom_point() +
  guides(fill = "none") +
  coord_map(
    projection = "albers",
    lat0 = 39,
    lat1 = 45
  ) +
  theme_bw()

## End(Not run)