Occupational Status of Fathers and their Sons

Description

Cross-classification of a sample of British males according to each subject's occupational status and his father's occupational status.

Usage

occupationalStatus

Format

A table of counts, with classifying factors origin (father's occupational status; levels 1:8) and destination (son's occupational status; levels 1:8).

Source

⁠Goodman LA (1979). “Simple Models for the Analysis of Association in Cross-Classifications Having Ordered Categories.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(367), 537–552. doi:10.1080/01621459.1979.10481650.

The data set has been in package gnm and been provided by the package authors.

Examples

require(stats); require(graphics)

plot(occupationalStatus)

##  Fit a uniform association model separating diagonal effects
Diag <- as.factor(diag(1:8))
Rscore <- scale(as.numeric(row(occupationalStatus)), scale = FALSE)
Cscore <- scale(as.numeric(col(occupationalStatus)), scale = FALSE)
modUnif <- glm(Freq ~ origin + destination + Diag + Rscore:Cscore,
               family = poisson, data = occupationalStatus)

summary(modUnif)
plot(modUnif) # 4 plots, with warning about  h_ii ~= 1