Greene                  package:car                  R Documentation

_R_e_f_u_g_e_e _A_p_p_e_a_l_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The `Greene' data frame has 384 rows and 7 columns.
 These are
     cases filed in 1990, in which refugee claimants rejected
 by the
     Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board asked the Federal
 Court of
     Appeal for leave to appeal the negative ruling of the Board.

_U_s_a_g_e:


     data(Greene)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     _j_u_d_g_e Name of judge hearing case.
 A factor with levels:
          `Desjardins', 
 `Heald', 
 `Hugessen', 
 `Iacobucci', 
          `MacGuigan', 
 `Mahoney',
 `Marceau', 
 `Pratte',
 `Stone',
          `Urie'. 
 

     _n_a_t_i_o_n Nation of origin of claimant.
 A factor with levels:
          `Argentina',
 `Bulgaria',
 `China',
 `Czechoslovakia',
          `El.Salvador',
 `Fiji',
 `Ghana',
 `Guatemala',
 `India',
          `Iran',
 `Lebanon',
 `Nicaragua',
 `Nigeria',
 `Pakistan',
          `Poland',
 `Somalia',
 `Sri.Lanka'.
 

     _r_a_t_e_r Judgment of independent rater.
 A factor with levels:
 `no',
          case has no merit;
 `yes', case has some merit (leave to
          appeal should be granted).
 

     _d_e_c_i_s_i_o_n Judge's decision.
 A factor with levels:
 `no', leave to
          appeal not granted;
 `yes', leave to appeal granted.
 

     _l_a_n_g_u_a_g_e Language of case. 
 A factor with levels:
 `English',
          `French'.
 

     _l_o_c_a_t_i_o_n Location of original refugee claim.
 A factor with
          levels:
 `Montreal',
 `other',
 `Toronto'.
 

     _s_u_c_c_e_s_s Logit of success rate, for all cases from the applicant's
          nation.
 

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Personal communication from Ian Greene, Department of
 Political
     Science, York University.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Fox, J. (1997)
 Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related
     Methods. Sage.

